南山

Chinese

		south	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (南山)		南	山
anagram		山南
Literally: “southern mountain”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Nánshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naam⁴ saan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Nánshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Nánshan
    • Wade–Giles: Nan²-shan¹
    • Yale: Nán-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nanshan
    • Palladius: Наньшань (Nanʹšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: naam⁴ saan¹
    • Yale: nàahm sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naam⁴ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nam⁴ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːm²¹ saːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nom srean

Rime
Character	南	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	那含切	所閒切
Baxter	nom	srean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nʌm/	/ʃˠɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/nəm/	/ʃᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/nɒm/	/ʃæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəm/	/ʂəɨn/
Li Rong	/nᴀm/	/ʃɛn/
Wang Li	/nɒm/	/ʃæn/
Bernard Karlgren	/năm/	/ʂăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nán	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	naam4	saan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤ[ə]m  s-ŋrar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*nuːm  sreːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	南	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nán	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ nom ›	‹ srɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁ[ə]m/	/*s-ŋrar/
English	south	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	南	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9355	11052
Phonetic component	南	山
Rime group	侵	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	南	山
Old Chinese	/*nuːm/	/*sreːn/

Proper noun

南山

2. (～區) Nanshan (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)

   南山必勝客／南山必胜客  ―  Nánshān Bìshèngkè  ―  (Internet slang) an alternative name for Tencent, literally "the undefeatable one (in court) in the Nanshan District"

4. (～區) Nanshan (a district of Hegang, Heilongjiang, China)
6. (～區) Nanshan (a county-controlled district in Zhuolu, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China)
7. Nanshan (various towns, townships, and subdistricts of China)
8. Nanshan (a dormant volcano in northeastern China's Keluo volcanic field)
9. Namsan (various hills and mountains of Korea)
   1. (～洞) Namsan-dong (a neighbourhood of Jung district, Seoul, South Korea)
   2. (～洞) Namsan-dong (a neighbourhood of Geumjeong district, Busan, South Korea)
10. (historical) Nanzan (a former kingdom on Okinawa island)
11. Short for 南山大学: Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan
12. (uncommon) Alternative name for 祁連山／祁连山 (Qílián Shān, “Qilian Mountains, a range between Gansu and Qinghai south of the Hexi Corridor”).
13. (uncommon) Alternative name for 終南山／终南山 (Zhōngnán Shān, “Zhongnan Mountains, a range south of Xi'an in Shaanxi”).
14. (obsolete) Old name for 廬山／庐山 (Lúshān, “Mount Lu (prior to the Song dynasty)”).

See also

• 馬歡島／马欢岛 (“Nanshan Island in the Spratlies”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
南	山
みなみ Grade: 2	やま Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Proper noun

南(みなみ)山(やま) • (Minamiyama) 

1. a surname