山口

Chinese

		mountain; hill	mouth; (a measure word, for people, livestock or utensils)
simp. and trad. (山口)		山	口

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shānkǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ ㄎㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹ hau²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soaⁿ-kháu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shānkǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ ㄎㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shankǒu
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹-kʻou³
    • Yale: shān-kǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shankoou
    • Palladius: шанькоу (šanʹkou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan¹ hau²
    • Yale: sāan háu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹ hau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: san¹ heo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵ hɐu̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soaⁿ-kháu
    • Tâi-lô: suann-kháu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svoa'qao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /suã³³ kʰau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /suã⁴⁴⁻²² kʰau⁵³/

Etymology 1

Noun

山口

1. mountain pass
2. (music) nut (small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, the proper height on traditional Chinese stringed instruments such as pipa and sanxian)
3. (music) blowing aperture (on the xiao, the Chinese vertical bamboo flute)

Synonyms

• (mountain pass): 隘口 (àikǒu)

(chiefly in placenames) 達坂／达坂 (dábǎn)

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 山口(やまぐち) (Yamaguchi).

Proper noun

山口

1. (～縣) Yamaguchi (a prefecture of Japan)
2. (～市) Yamaguchi (a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan)
3. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 山口, Yamaguchi

Japanese

Kanji in this term
山	口
やま Grade: 1	くち > ぐち Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 山 (yama, “mountain”) +‎ 口 (kuchi, “mouth; opening, gateway”). The kuchi changes to guchi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やま​ぐち [yàmáꜜgùchì] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠ɡɯ̟ᵝt͡ɕi]

Proper noun

山(やま)口(ぐち) • (Yamaguchi) 

1. Yamaguchi (a prefecture of Japan)
2. Yamaguchi (the capital city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan)
3. a surname

See also

• 山口県(やまぐちけん) (Yamaguchi-ken): Yamaguchi prefecture
• 山口市(やまぐちし) (Yamaguchi-shi): Yamaguchi city

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
山	口
やま Grade: 1	くち > ぐち Grade: 1
irregular	kun’yomi

Etymology

From Japanese 山口 (Yamaguchi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jamaɡut͡ɕi/

Proper noun

山(やま)口(ぐち) (Yamaguchi) 

1. Yamaguchi (a prefecture of Japan)
2. Yamaguchi (the capital city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan)

See also

• 山口県(やまぐちちん) (Yamaguchi-chin): Yamaguchi prefecture

References

• “ヤマグチ” in Okinawa Center of Language Study, Shuri-Naha Dialect Dictionary (archived; reopens 2024).