富士

Chinese

		rich; abundant; to enrich rich; abundant; to enrich; resource	scholar; warrior; knight
simp. and trad. (富士)		富	士

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 富士 (Fuji).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Fùshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³ si⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Fùshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Fùshìh
    • Wade–Giles: Fu⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: Fù-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fuhshyh
    • Palladius: Фуши (Fuši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu³ si⁶
    • Yale: fu sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu³ si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu³ xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³³ siː²²/

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 富士

1. (～山) Mount Fuji (a mountain, a the highest mountain in Japan)
2. (～市) Fuji (a city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)
3. Fuji, a Japanese company

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
富	士
ふ Grade: 4 (ateji)	じ Grade: 5 (ateji)
goon

Alternative forms

• (Mount Fuji): 不二, 不尽

Etymology

⟨puzi⟩ → /ɸuʑi/ → /fuʑi/

From Old Japanese 富士 (Puzi).

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ) • (Fuji) 

1. Short for 富士山 (Fujisan): Mount Fuji
   • 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 11, poem 534)

     人(ひと)知(し)れぬ思(おも)ひをつねにするがなる富士(ふじ)の山(やま)こそ我(わ)が身(み)なりけれ

     hito shirenu omoi o tsune ni Suruga naru Fuji-no-yama koso waga mi narikere

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:富士.
2. a placename, especially of a city in Shizuoka Prefecture

Citations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:富士.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 赤(あか)富士(ふじ) (aka-Fuji)
• 影(かげ)富士(ふじ) (kage-Fuji)
• 初(はつ)富士(ふじ) (hatsu-Fuji)
• 富士(ふじ)五湖(ごこ) (Fujigoko)
• 富士(フジ)桜(ザクラ) (fujizakura)
• 富士(フジ)壺(ツボ) (fujitsubo)
• 富士道者(ふじどうしゃ) (Fuji dōsha)
• 富士(ふじの)宮(みや) (Fujinomiya)
• 富士(ふじ)参(まい)り (Fuji-mairi)
• 富士(ふじ)祭(まつり) (Fuji Matsuri)
• 富士見(ふじみ) (Fujimi)
• 富士詣(ふじもう)で (Fuji-mōde)
• 富士(ふじ)吉(よし)田(だ) (Fujiyoshida)
• 逆(さか)さ富士(ふじ) (sakasa-Fuji)

Proverbs

• 富士(ふじ)は磯(いそ) (Fuji wa iso)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Chinese:
  • → Mandarin: 富士 (Fùshì)
  • → Cantonese: 富士 (fu³ si⁶)
• → Dutch: Fuji
• → English: Fuji
• → French: Fuji
• → German: Fuji
• → Italian: Fuji
• → Korean: 후지 (Huji)
• → Portuguese: Fuji
• → Russian: Фудзи (Fudzi)
• → Spanish: Fuji
• → Vietnamese: Phú Sĩ

Noun

富(ふ)士(じ) • (fuji) 

1. Short for 江戸の富士 (Edo no Fuji): a hill imitating Mount Fuji
2. an incense made of 伽羅 (kyara) aromatic wood
3. (euphemistic) female genitalia

   Synonym: 女陰 (join)

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Old Japanese

Alternative forms

• 不盡

Etymology

First attested in the Hitachi-no-kuni Fudoki (c. 717–724 CE).

Etymology continues to be debated, theories include:

• From Ainu フヂ (fuji, “[goddess of] fire”), commonly associated with volcanoes by the Ainu people.
• Alexander Vovin (2017) proposes a derivation from 火 (pu, “fire”, Eastern Old Japanese term and hapax legomenon encountered only once in any ancient source, inferred as equivalent to Western Old Japanese combining form po and standalone form pi) +‎ 主 (nusi, “master”):

  *⟨pu nusi⟩ → */punusi/ → */punsi/ → ⟨puzi⟩

This kanji spelling first appeared in a variant of the Suruga-no-kuni Fudoki and in the Shoku Nihongi (797 CE), possibly relating to a folk etymology of 富 (fu, “abundant”) + 士 (shi, “soldiers”) climbing the mountain. Multiple other folk etymologies exist, such as 不死 (fushi, “immortal”). All the folk etymologies rely on on'yomi readings, a trait that Vovin finds unsatisfactory due to the reliance on Chinese morphemes to spell an ancient Japanese placename.

Proper noun

富士 (Puzi) (kana ふじ)

1. Short for 富士の山 (Puzi-no₂-yama): Mount Fuji
   • c. 717–724, Hitachi-no-kuni Fudoki (Tsukuba)

     神祖尊、巡行諸神之処、到駿河國福慈岳...

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 11, poem 2695:
     , text here

     吾妹子尓相縁乎無駿河有不盡乃高嶺之焼管香將有

     wagi₁moko₁ ni apu yo₂si wo nami₁ Suruga naru Puzi no₂ takane no₂ moyetutu ka aramu

     With no way now for me to meet my love, my heart is burning with the thought of love like the fire on the top of Mount Fuji in Suruga.

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, first variant poem 3355, first variant:
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     安麻乃波良不自能之婆夜麻己能久礼能等伎由都利奈波阿波受可母安良牟

     ama no₂ para Puzi no₂ sibayama ko₂no₂ kure no₂ to₂ki₁ yuturinaba apazu ka mo aramu

     Under the shade of the trees, on the grassy mount^[sic] Fuji, field of the heavens, if too much time passes, [I] may not be able to meet [you].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:富士.

Citations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:富士.

Descendants

• Japanese: 富士 (ふじ, Fuji)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
富	士

Proper noun

富士

1. chữ Hán form of Phú Sĩ (“Mount Fuji (a mountain, a the highest mountain in Japan)”).
2. chữ Hán form of Phú Sĩ (“Fuji (a city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)”).