名山

Chinese

		name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place	mountain; hill
trad. (名山)		名	山
simp. #(名山)		名	山
anagram		山名

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míngshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ saan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: míngshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: míngshan
    • Wade–Giles: ming²-shan¹
    • Yale: míng-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mingshan
    • Palladius: миншань (minšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ming⁴ saan¹
    • Yale: mìhng sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹ saːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: mjieng srean

Rime
Character	名	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	武并切	所閒切
Baxter	mjieng	srean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇŋ/	/ʃˠɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛŋ/	/ʃᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/miæŋ/	/ʃæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miajŋ/	/ʂəɨn/
Li Rong	/miɛŋ/	/ʃɛn/
Wang Li	/mĭɛŋ/	/ʃæn/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛŋ/	/ʂăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ming4	saan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.meŋ  s-ŋrar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*meŋ  sreːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	名	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	míng	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ mjieng ›	‹ srɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*C.meŋ/	/*s-ŋrar/
English	name	mountain, hill
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	名	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9178	11052
Phonetic component	名	山
Rime group	耕	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	名	山
Old Chinese	/*meŋ/	/*sreːn/

Noun

名山

1. famous mountain

Derived terms

• 名山事業／名山事业
• 名山勝境／名山胜境
• 名山大川
• 四大名山
• 藏之名山
• 藏諸名山／藏诸名山
• 風雨名山之業／风雨名山之业

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (名山):

• → Japanese: 名山(めいざん) (meizan)
• → Korean: 명산(名山) (myeongsan)

Proper noun

名山

1. (～區, formerly ～縣) Mingshan (a district and former county of Ya'an, Sichuan, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
名	山
めい Grade: 1	ざん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) め​ーざん [méꜜèzàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [me̞ːzã̠ɴ]

Noun

名(めい)山(ざん) • (meizan) ^{←めいざん (meizan)?}

1. famous mountain

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