山口

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)

• (mountain pass): 隘口 (àikǒu), (Puxian Min) 山喙

(chiefly in placenames) 達坂／达坂 (dábǎn)

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

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

Compound of 山 (yama, “mountain”) +‎ 口 (guchi, “mouth; opening, gateway”).^[1][2] The kuchi changes to guchi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

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

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

• 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

Borrowed from Japanese 山口 (Yamaguchi).

• IPA^(key): /jamaɡut͡ɕi/

山(やま)口(ぐち) (Yamaguchi) 

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

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

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