山河

Chinese

mountain; hill river
simp. and trad.
(山河)
anagram 河山

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (21) (33)
Final () (73) (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II I
Fanqie
Baxter srean ha
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠɛn/ /ɦɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚæn/ /ɦɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃæn/ /ɣɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂəɨn/ /ɦa/
Li
Rong
/ʃɛn/ /ɣɑ/
Wang
Li
/ʃæn/ /ɣɑ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʂăn/ /ɣɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
saan1 ho4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shān
Middle
Chinese
‹ srɛn › ‹ ha ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ŋrar/ /*[C.ɡ]ˁaj/
English mountain, hill river

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11052 7459
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sreːn/ /*ɡaːl/

Noun

山河

  1. (literally) mountains and rivers
  2. (figuratively) land of a country; territory

Derived terms

  • 咫尺山河
  • 山河易改,本性難移 / 山河易改,本性难移
  • 山河襟帶 / 山河襟带
  • 帶厲山河 / 带厉山河
  • 帶礪山河 / 带砺山河
  • 氣吞山河 / 气吞山河
  • 氣壓山河 / 气压山河
  • 氣壯山河 / 气壮山河
  • 氣蓋山河 / 气盖山河
  • 百二山河
  • 礪帶山河 / 砺带山河
  • 表裡山河 / 表里山河
  • 邈若山河
  • 錦繡山河 / 锦绣山河 (jǐnxiùshānhé)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (山河):
  • Japanese: (さん)() (sanga)
  • Korean: 산하(山河) (sanha)
  • Vietnamese: sơn hà (山河)

See also

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
さん
Grade: 1

Grade: 5
on'yomi

Borrowed from Literary Chinese 山河 (shānhé).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

(さん)() • (sangaさんが (sanga)?

  1. (literary) mountains and rivers
Synonyms
  • 山河(やまかわ) (yamakawa)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
さん
Grade: 1

Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sã̠ŋka̠]

Noun

(さん)() • (sankaさんか (sanka)?

  1. alternative form of 山河 (sanga)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
やま
Grade: 1
かわ
Grade: 5
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 山河 – see the following entry: やまかわ

(The following entry does not have a page created for it yet: やまかわ.)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

山河

  1. chữ Hán form of sơn hà (country)