富士山

Chinese

		phonetic	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (富士山)		富士	山
alternative forms		不二山不盡山／不尽山不自山不死山布士山不二山不盡山／不尽山不自山不死山布士山布自山福慈山

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富士山

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Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 富士山 (Fujisan). 富士 (Fuji) is from 富士 (Puzi). Vovin (2018) derives the latter from 火 (pu, “fire”) + 主 (nusi, “master”), with nusi reduced to -nzi, literally “fire master”.^[1]

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Fùshìshān

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ ㄕˋ ㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³ si⁶ saan¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hù-sū-soaⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Fùshìshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ ㄕˋ ㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Fùshìhshan
  - Wade–Giles: Fu⁴-shih⁴-shan¹
  - Yale: Fù-shr̀-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fuhshyhshan
  - Palladius: Фушишань (Fušišanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɻ̩⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu³ si⁶ saan¹
  - Yale: fu sih sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu³ si⁶ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu³ xi⁶ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³³ siː²² saːn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hù-sū-soaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: Hù-sū-suann
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huosuxsvoaf
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hu¹¹⁻⁵³ su³³⁻¹¹ suã⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²¹⁻⁴¹ su³³⁻²¹ suã⁴⁴/

Proper noun

富士山

Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)

References

^ Alexander Vovin (2018), “On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. Fuji”, in Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond, Brill, →DOI, pages 80–89

Japanese

Wikipedia has articles on:

Mount Fuji (English)
富士山 (Japanese)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
富	士	山
ふ Grade: 4	じ Grade: 5	さん Grade: 1
goon		kan'on

Alternative spellings
不二山 (uncommon) 不尽山 (uncommon)

From 富士(ふじ) (Fuji, the mountain's name) + 山(さん) (-san, “mountain, Mount”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ʑisã̠ɴ]
Audio: (file)
(Tokyo) ふじさん [fúꜜjìsàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[4]

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)山(さん) • (Fujisan)

Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
富	士	山
ふ Grade: 4	じ Grade: 5	やま Grade: 1
goon		kun'yomi

From 富士(ふじ) (Fuji, the mountain's name) + 山(やま) (yama, “mountain”), using the kun'yomi of yama for the last character.^[3]

This reading is much less common, and is not listed in many monolingual Japanese dictionaries.^[1]^[2]^[4] It might be considered proscribed by some.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ʑija̠ma̠]

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)山(やま) • (Fujiyama)

(uncommon, possibly proscribed) Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[1] Alexander Vovin (2018), “On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. Fuji”, in Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond, Brill, →DOI, pages 80–89

[KDJ-2] 1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJS-4] 3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[NHK-5] 4.0 ^4.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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