山形

Chinese

		mountain; hill	to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape
simp. and trad. (山形)		山	形

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shānxíng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢㄒㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹ jing⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shānxíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢㄒㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shansíng
  - Wade–Giles: shan¹-hsing²
  - Yale: shān-syíng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanshyng
  - Palladius: шаньсин (šanʹsin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saan¹ jing⁴
  - Yale: sāan yìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹ jing⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: san¹ ying⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵ jɪŋ²¹/

Noun

山形

topography of a mountain; features of a mountain

Synonyms

山勢／山势 (shānshì)

Proper noun

山形

(～縣) Yamagata (a prefecture of Japan)
(～市) Yamagata (a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan)
an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 山形, Yamagata

Japanese

Kanji in this term
山	形
やま Grade: 1	かた > がた Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) やまがた [yàmáꜜgàtà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠ɡa̠ta̠]

Proper noun

山(やま)形(がた) • (Yamagata)

Yamagata (the capital city of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan)
Yamagata (a prefecture in northern Honshu, Japan)
a surname

References

^ 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