江山

Chinese

		river	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (江山)		江	山

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāngshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ saan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kông-sân
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kang-san
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹kaon-se

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiāngshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiangshan
    • Wade–Giles: chiang¹-shan¹
    • Yale: jyāng-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiangshan
    • Palladius: цзяншань (czjanšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gong¹ saan¹
    • Yale: gōng sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 岡山 / 冈山 江山

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kông-sân
    • Hakka Romanization System: gong^ˊ san^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gong¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA: /koŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kang-san
    • Tâi-lô: kang-san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kangsafn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Taipei): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kaŋ³³ san³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹kaon-se
    • MiniDict: kaon^平 se
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kaan-se
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kɑ̃⁵⁵ se²¹/

Noun

江山

1. rivers and mountains; the land; a landscape
2. (figurative) the country; the state power

Derived terms

• 半壁江山 (bànbìjiāngshān)
• 坐江山
• 指點江山 / 指点江山 (zhǐdiǎnjiāngshān)
• 江山不老
• 江山之助
• 江山好改，秉性難移 / 江山好改，秉性难移
• 江山如故
• 江山如畫 / 江山如画
• 江山易改，本性難移 / 江山易改，本性难移 (jiāngshān yì gǎi, běnxìng nán yí)
• 江山易改，稟性難移 / 江山易改，禀性难移
• 萬里江山
• 錦繡江山 / 锦绣江山 (jǐnxiùjiāngshān)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (江山):

• → Japanese: 江山(こうざん) (kōzan)
• → Korean: 강산(江山) (gangsan)
• → Vietnamese: giang sơn (江山)

See also

• 山河 (shānhé)
• 山水 (shānshuǐ)

Proper noun

江山

1. (～市) Jiangshan (a county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang, China)