青森

Chinese

		green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)	of trees, many
trad. (青森)		青	森
simp. ^#(青森)		青	森

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 青(あお)森(もり) (Aomori).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Qīngsēn

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥㄙㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ sam¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Chheng-sim

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Qīngsēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥㄙㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Cingsen
  - Wade–Giles: Chʻing¹-sên¹
  - Yale: Chīng-sēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chingsen
  - Palladius: Цинсэнь (Cinsɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ sən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cing¹ sam¹
  - Yale: chīng sām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ sam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ sem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ sɐm⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chheng-sim
  - Tâi-lô: Tshing-sim
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhengsym
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ sim⁴⁴/

Proper noun

青森

(～縣) Aomori (a prefecture of Japan)
(～市) Aomori (a city in Aomori Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
青	森
あお Grade: 1	もり Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
靑森 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) あおもり [àóꜜmòrì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [a̠o̞mo̞ɾʲi]

Proper noun

青(あお)森(もり) • (Aomori) ^{←あをもり (Awomori)^?}

Aomori (the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, Japan)
Aomori (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