新高山

Chinese

		new	high	mountain
trad. (新高山)		新	高	山
simp. #(新高山)		新	高	山

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 新高山.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xīngāoshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ ㄍㄠ ㄕㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xīngāoshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄍㄠ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Singaoshan
    • Wade–Giles: Hsin¹-kao¹-shan¹
    • Yale: Syīn-gāu-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shingaushan
    • Palladius: Синьгаошань (Sinʹgaošanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

Proper noun

新高山

1. (historical) Former name of 玉山 (Yùshān), the tallest mountain on Taiwan Island, during the island's Japanese occupation.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	高	山
にい Grade: 2	たか Grade: 2	やま Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Torii and Ushinosuke's discovery in 1900 that Yushan was higher than Mount Fuji in the Japanese Islands.

Proper noun

新(にい)高(たか)山(やま) • (Niitakayama) 

1. (historical) Former name of 玉山, the highest mountain on Taiwan Island.