富士山
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富士山 (Fujisan, Fujiyama): Mount Fuji, the iconically conical volcano.
Chinese
| mountain; hill | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (富士山) |
富士 | 山 | |
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 富士山 (Fujisan).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): fu3 si6 saan1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hù-sū-soaⁿ
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ ㄕˋ ㄕㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Fùshìhshan
- Wade–Giles: Fu4-shih4-shan1
- Yale: Fù-shr̀-shān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fuhshyhshan
- Palladius: Фушишань (Fušišanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /fu⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fu3 si6 saan1
- Yale: fu sih sāan
- Cantonese Pinyin: fu3 si6 saan1
- Guangdong Romanization: fu3 xi6 san1
- Sinological IPA (key): /fuː³³ siː²² saːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hù-sū-soaⁿ
- Tâi-lô: Hù-sū-suann
- Phofsit Daibuun: huosuxsvoaf
- IPA (Taipei): /hu¹¹⁻⁵³ su³³⁻¹¹ suã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²¹⁻⁴¹ su³³⁻²¹ suã⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Proper noun
富士山
- Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)
Japanese
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 富 | 士 | 山 |
| ふ Grade: 4 |
じ Grade: 5 |
さん Grade: 1 |
| goon | kan'on | |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 不二山 (uncommon) 不尽山 (uncommon) |
Compound of 富士 (Fuji, the mountain's name) + 山 (san, “mountain, Mount”, generally only read as san in place names).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 富 | 士 | 山 |
| ふ Grade: 4 |
じ Grade: 5 |
やま Grade: 1 |
| goon | kun'yomi | |
Compound of 富士 (Fuji, the mountain's name) + 山 (yama, “mountain”), using the kun'yomi of yama for the last character.[3]
This reading is much less common, and is not listed in many monolingual Japanese dictionaries.[1][2][4] It might be considered proscribed by some.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- (uncommon, possibly proscribed) Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN