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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, 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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      edit edit 青山 青衫

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • 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: /t͡sʰi̯aŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng-san
    • Tâi-lô: tshing-san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhengsafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɪŋ³³ san³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Noun

青山

1. green mountains; mountains with lush forests

   • 青山依舊在，幾度夕陽紅。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     青山依旧在，几度夕阳红。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 16th century, 楊慎 (Yang Shen), 臨江仙

     Qīngshān yījiù zài, jǐ dù xīyáng hóng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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)
• (psychiatric hospital): (Guangzhou Cantonese) 芳村 (Fāngcūn)

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)

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

• (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. Aoyama (a neighborhood in the north of Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

   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. Aoyama (a former town in the Naga District, Mie Prefecture, Japan)
4. Aoyama, Aoyama Station (a railway station in the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, 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

• (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. (figurative) 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 (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China)
2. Qingshan (a district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China)
3. Qingshan (several towns, townships and subdistricts in China)