松山

Chinese

		pine	mountain; hill
trad. (松山)		松	山
simp. #(松山)		松	山

Etymology

Songshan; Matsuyama

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 松(まつ)山(やま) (Matsuyama). In the case of Songshan, it replaced 錫口／锡口, the old name of the area.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Sōngshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cung⁴ saan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Chhiùng-sân
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Siông-san

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sōngshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Songshan
    • Wade–Giles: Sung¹-shan¹
    • Yale: Sūng-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Songshan
    • Palladius: Суншань (Sunšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cung⁴ saan¹
    • Yale: chùhng sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsung⁴ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cung⁴ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ saːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhiùng-sân
    • Hakka Romanization System: qiung^ˇ san^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qiung² san¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯uŋ¹¹ san²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siông-san
    • Tâi-lô: Siông-san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siongsafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² san³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ¹³⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Proper noun

松山

1. (～區) Songshan (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)
2. (～市) Matsuyama (a city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
3. Synonym of 松岳山 (“Mount Song'ak, North Korea”)

   • ^傘圓概似^松山秀，^鴨綠應同^珥水長。 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 《朝鮮正使前以扇贈故云》 ("The Korean Envoy Previously Gifted Me a Fan, so I Reply"), by Lê Quý Đôn to Hong Gye-hui, 1760

     Tản Viên khái tự Tùng Sơn tú, Áp Lục ưng đồng Nhị Thuỷ trường. [Sino-Vietnamese]

     The scenery of Tản Viên is majestic like your Song'ak, and the Yalu must be as long as our Red River.

References

• “Entry #34112”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
松	山
まつ Grade: 4	やま Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Proper noun

松(まつ)山(やま) • (Matsuyama) 

1. Matsuyama (the capital city of Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
2. a surname