新高山

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Chinese[edit]

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

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Niitakayama

Etymology[edit]

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 新高山.

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xīngāoshān

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣㄍㄠㄕㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xīngāoshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣㄍㄠㄕㄢ
  - 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[edit]

新高山

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

Japanese[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

新(にい)高(たか)山(やま) • (Niitakayama)

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

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