青山

Chinese

		green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)	mountain; hill
trad. (青山)		青	山
simp. #(青山)		青	山

Etymology

“psycho”; “psychiatric hospital”

From 青山醫院 (Castle Peak Hospital), the first psychiatric hospital in Hong Kong.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīngshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ saan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiâng-sân
• Min Nan (POJ): chheng-san

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīngshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cingshan
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing¹-shan¹
    • Yale: chīng-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chingshan
    • Palladius: циншань (cinšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing¹ saan¹
    • Yale: chīng sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiâng-sân
    • Hakka Romanization System: qiang´ san´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qiang¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng-san
    • Tâi-lô: tshing-san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhengsafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ³³ san³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Noun

青山

1. green mountains; mountains with lush forests
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, derogatory, slang) psycho
3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) psychiatric hospital

   青山走犯 [Cantonese]  ―  cing¹ saan¹ zau² faan^6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a psychopath (literally, “an escaped criminal from the Castle Peak hospital”)

Synonyms

• (green mountains): 蒼山／苍山 (cāngshān)

Derived terms

• 留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒／留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 (liú dé qīngshān zài, bùpà méi chái shāo)
• 留得青山在，不愁沒柴燒／留得青山在，不愁没柴烧 (liú dé qīngshān zài, bù chóu méi chái shāo)
• 留得青山在，哪怕冇柴燒／留得青山在，哪怕冇柴烧

• 綠水青山／绿水青山 (lǜshuǐqīngshān)
• 青山綠水／青山绿水 (qīngshānlǜshuǐ)

Proper noun

青山

1. Castle Peak (a mountain peak in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong)
2. (～區)
   1. Qingshan (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China)
   2. Qingshan (a district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China)
   3. Castle Peak (a former district of Hong Kong), renamed to Tuen Mun
3. (～鎮) Qingshan (a town in Yunyang district, Shiyan, Hubei, China)
4. (～醫院) Castle Peak Hospital (a psychiatric hospital in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong)

   去青山睇病 [Cantonese]  ―  heoi³ cing¹ saan¹ tai² beng⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  to get checked out at Castle Peak

5. Aoyama (a sub-district in Minato, Tokyo prefecture, Japan)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

青山 (Aoyama): the Aoyama family crest.

Kanji in this term
青	山
あお Grade: 1	やま Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
靑山 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 青 (ao, “blue or green; lush with life”) +‎ 山 (yama, “mountain”).

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) あおやま [àóyámá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [a̠o̞ja̠ma̠]

Noun

青(あお)山(やま) • (aoyama) ^{←あをやま (awoyama)?}

1. a green lush mountain or mountainous area
2. a type of fancy kamaboko (fishcake) used in ceremonies

Proper noun

青(あお)山(やま) • (Aoyama) ^{←あをやま (awoyama)?}

1. a Japanese habitational surname
2. a place in the north of Minato-ku, Tōkyō

   So named as the land was deeded to Aoyama Tadanari (青山忠成, d. 1613; Wikipedia article) by Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康, d. 1616; Wikipedia article).

3. various other places in Japan

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 青山菊(あおやまぎく) (aoyamagiku): the Aoyama chrysanthemum, a family crest

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
青	山
せい Grade: 1	さん > ざん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
靑山 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 青山 (tsheng srɛn, literally “green or blue + mountain or hill”). Compare modern Min Nan reading chheng-san, or Mandarin reading qīngshān.

The 山 character is read san ordinarily. The san changes to zan as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) せ​ーざん [séꜜèzàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːzã̠ɴ]

Noun

青(せい)山(ざん) • (seizan) 

1. a green lush mountain or mountainous area
2. (metaphoric) a grave or one's final resting place
3. alternate name for the 琵琶(びわ) (biwa), a four-stringed lute brought to Japan from Tang Dynasty China

Idioms

Idioms

• 青山一髪(せいざんいっぱつ) (seizan ippatsu): "lush mountains, a single hair" → the mountains are so far away that they recede into the distance, seeming only as tall as a single hair is wide
• 人間到(にんげんいた)る処青山有(ところせいざんあ)り (ningen itaru tokoro seizan ari); 人間至(じんかんいた)る所青山有(ところせいざんあ)り (jinkan itaru tokoro seizan ari): "wherever people go, there are green mountains", "wherever you go in the world, there are green mountains" → get out and see the world, don't be a homebody

Proper noun

青(せい)山(ざん) • (Seizan) 

1. Qingshan, any of several places in China