富士山

Chinese

			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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hù-sū-soaⁿ

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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–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/
• 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/

Proper noun

富士山

1. Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)

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).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ふ​じさん [fúꜜjìsàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• 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.

This reading is much less common, and is not listed in many monolingual Japanese dictionaries. 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