中山
Chinese edit
middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark) |
mountain; hill | ||
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simp. and trad. (中山) |
中 | 山 |
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Literally “Central Mountains”, named after a mountain in its capital.
Proper noun edit
中山
Etymology 2 edit
Named after Chinese president 孫中山 (Sun Yat-sen's) pseudonym 中山樵 (Nakayama Kikori), from the Japanese surname 中山 (Nakayama).
Zhongshan, Guangdong was renamed from 香山 (Xiāngshān); Sun Yat-sen's birthplace is in Zhongshan.
Proper noun edit
中山
- (~市, formerly ~縣) Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city and former county of Guangdong, China)
- (~區) Zhongshan (a district of Dalian, Liaoning, China)
- (~區) Zhongshan (a district of the city of Taipei, Taiwan)
- (~區) Zhongshan (a district of the city of Keelung, Taiwan)
Synonyms edit
- (city in Guangdong): 香山 (Xiāngshān) (historical)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Entry #36029”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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中 | 山 |
なか Grade: 1 |
やま Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
Proper noun edit
- a surname
Kanji in this term | |
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中 | 山 |
ちゅう Grade: 1 |
さん > ざん Grade: 1 |
on’yomi |
- Chūzan (a former kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands, existing from 1314 to 1429)