中山

Chinese

		middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (中山)		中	山

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Zhōngshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ saan¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Tiong-san

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongshan
    • Wade–Giles: Chung¹-shan¹
    • Yale: Jūng-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jongshan
    • Palladius: Чжуншань (Čžunšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹ saan¹
    • Yale: jūng sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiong-san
    • Tâi-lô: Tiong-san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diongsafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³ san³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Etymology 1

Literally “Central Mountains”, named after a mountain in its capital.

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 中山

1. (～國) (historical) Zhongshan (a feudal state that was located in modern-day Dingzhou, Hebei)

Etymology 2

Named after Chinese president 孫中山 (Sun Yat-sen's) pseudonym 中(なか)山(やま)樵(きこり) (Nakayama Kikori), from the Japanese surname 中(なか)山(やま) (Nakayama).

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 中山

1. (～市) Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China)
2. (～區) Zhongshan (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)
3. (～區) Zhongshan (a district of Keelung, Taiwan)

Synonyms

• (city in Guangdong): 香山 (Xiāngshān) (historical)

Further reading

• “Entry #36029”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
中	山
なか Grade: 1	やま Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Proper noun

中(なか)山(やま) • (Nakayama) 

1. a surname

Kanji in this term
中	山
ちゅう Grade: 1	さん > ざん Grade: 1
on’yomi

中(ちゅう)山(ざん) • (Chūzan) 

1. Chūzan, a kingdom that once existed in the Ryukyu Islands from 1314 to 1429.