華山

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	mountain; hill
trad. (華山)		華	山
simp. (华山)		华	山
alternative forms		崋山

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Huà Shān

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ saan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hôa-san

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Huà Shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Huà Shan
    • Wade–Giles: Hua⁴ Shan¹
    • Yale: Hwà Shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Huah Shan
    • Palladius: Хуа Шань (Xua Šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁶ saan¹
    • Yale: wah sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²² saːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hôa-san
    • Tâi-lô: Huâ-san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoasafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hua²⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua²⁴⁻²² san³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua¹³⁻²² san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hua²⁴⁻¹¹ san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hua²³⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: hwaeH srean

Rime
Character	華	山
Reading #	3/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	麻 (99)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	胡化切	所閒切
Baxter	hwaeH	srean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuaH/	/ʃˠɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚaH/	/ʃᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuaH/	/ʃæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨH/	/ʂəɨn/
Li Rong	/ɣuaH/	/ʃɛn/
Wang Li	/ɣwaH/	/ʃæn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwaH/	/ʂăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huà	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waa6	saan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤra-s  s-ŋrar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːs  sreːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	華	山
Reading #	3/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huà	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ hwæH ›	‹ srɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁra-s/	/*s-ŋrar/
English	[name of a mountain]	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	華	山
Reading #	3/3	1/1
No.	5316	11052
Phonetic component	華	山
Rime group	魚	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	摦	山
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːs/	/*sreːn/
Notes	華山、同崋

Proper noun

華山

1. Mount Hua (in Shaanxi Province, China)