松山

Chinese

		pine	mountain; hill
trad. (松山)		松	山
simp. ^#(松山)		松	山

Etymology

Songshan; Matsuyama

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 松(まつ)山(やま) (Matsuyama). In the case of Songshan, it replaced 錫口／锡口, the old name of the area.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Sōngshān

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cung⁴ saan¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Chhiùng-sân
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Siông-san

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Sōngshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Songshan
  - Wade–Giles: Sung¹-shan¹
  - Yale: Sūng-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Songshan
  - Palladius: Суншань (Sunšanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cung⁴ saan¹
  - Yale: chùhng sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsung⁴ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cung⁴ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ saːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhiùng-sân
  - Hakka Romanization System: qiung^ˇ san^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: qiung² san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯uŋ¹¹ san²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siông-san
  - Tâi-lô: Siông-san
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siongsafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² san³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ¹³⁻²² san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Proper noun

松山

(～區) Songshan, Sungshan (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)
(～市) Matsuyama (a city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
synonym of 松岳山 (“Mount Song'ak, North Korea”)
- ^傘圓概似^松山秀，^鴨綠應同^珥水長。 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]
  From: 《朝鮮正使前以扇贈故云》 ("The Korean Envoy Previously Gifted Me a Fan, so I Reply"), by Lê Quý Đôn to Hong Gye-hui, 1760
  Tản Viên khái tự Tùng Sơn tú, Áp Lục ưng đồng Nhị Thuỷ trường. [Sino-Vietnamese]
  The scenery of Tản Viên is majestic like your Song'ak, and the Yalu must be as long as our Red River.

Descendants

→ English: Songshan, Sungshan

References

“松山”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
松	山
まつ Grade: 4	やま Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Proper noun

松(まつ)山(やま) • (Matsuyama)

Matsuyama (the capital city of Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
a surname