岡山

See also: 冈山

Chinese

		ridge; mound	mountain; hill
trad. (岡山)		岡	山
simp. (冈山)		冈	山
anagram		山岡／山冈

Etymology

Okayama, Japan: Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 岡山(おかやま) (Okayama).
Gangshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 岡山(おかやま) (Okayama), which replaced 阿公店 (A-kong-tiàm), the old name of the area, in 1920.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Gāngshān

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄤㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ saan¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Kong-san

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Gāngshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄤㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Gangshan
  - Wade–Giles: Kang¹-shan¹
  - Yale: Gāng-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gangshan
  - Palladius: Ганшань (Ganšanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gong¹ saan¹
  - Yale: gōng sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gong¹ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    岡山 / 冈山
    江山
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kong-san
  - Tâi-lô: Kong-san
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kongsafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ san³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Proper noun

岡山

(～縣) Okayama (a prefecture of Japan)
(～市) Okayama (the capital city of Okayama Prefecture, Japan)
(～區) Gangshan (a suburban district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
岡	山
おか Grade: 4	やま Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おかやま [òkáꜜyàmà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [o̞ka̠ja̠ma̠]

Proper noun

岡(おか)山(やま) • (Okayama) ^{←をかやま (Wokayama)^?}

Okayama (the capital city of Okayama Prefecture, Japan)
Okayama (a prefecture of Japan)
a surname

Kanji in this term
岡	山
Grade: 4	Grade: 1
irregular

岡山(かんしゃん) or 岡山(カンシャン) • (Kanshan)

Kangshan, Gangshan (a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan)

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