富士山

富士山

Chinese

		Mount Fuji; Fuji	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (富士山)		富士	山

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 富士山 (Fujisan).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Fùshìshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ ㄕˋ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³ si⁶ saan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Fùshìshān
    • 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu³ si⁶ saan¹
    • Yale: fu sih sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu³ si⁶ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu³ xi⁶ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³³ siː²² saːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

富士山

1. Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)

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Japanese

富士山 (Fujisan, Fujiyama): Mount Fuji, the iconically conical volcano.

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

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) ふ​じさん [fúꜜjìsàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[4]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝʑisã̠ɴ]

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Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)山(さん) • (Fujisan) 

1. 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

• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝʑija̠ma̠]

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)山(やま) • (Fujiyama) 

1. (uncommon, possibly proscribed) Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
4. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN