富士山

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Chinese

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mountain; hill
simp. and trad.
(富士山)
富士
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Etymology

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Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 富士山 (Fujisan).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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富士山

  1. Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)

Japanese

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富士山 (Fujisan, Fujiyama): Mount Fuji, the iconically conical volcano.

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: 5
さん
Grade: 1
goon kan'on
Alternative spellings
不二山 (uncommon)
不尽山 (uncommon)

Compound of 富士 (Fuji, the mountain's name) +‎ (san, mountain, Mount, generally only read as san in place names).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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()()(さん) (Fujisan

  1. Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: 5
やま
Grade: 1
goon kun'yomi

Compound of 富士 (Fuji, the mountain's name) +‎ (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

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Proper noun

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()()(やま) (Fujiyama

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

References

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  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. 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