富士山

Chinese
mountain; hill
simp. and trad.
(富士山)		 富士 山

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 富士山 (Fujisan).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

富士山

  1. Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)

Japanese
富士山 (Fujisan, Fujiyama): Mount Fuji, the iconically conical volcano.

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
富 士 山
ふ
Grade: 4		 じ
Grade: 5		 さん
Grade: 1
goon kan’on
Alternative spellings
不二山 (uncommon)
不尽山 (uncommon)

Compound of 富士 (Fuji, the mountain's name) +‎ 山 (san, “mountain, Mount”, generally only read as san in place names).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ふ​じさん [fúꜜjìsàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[4]
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝʑisã̠ɴ]
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)山(さん) • (Fujisan) 

  1. Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
富 士 山
ふ
Grade: 4		 じ
Grade: 5		 やま
Grade: 1
goon kun’yomi

Compound of 富士 (Fuji, the mountain's name) +‎ 山 (yama, “mountain”), using the kun'yomi of yama for the last character.[3]

This reading is much less common, and is not listed in many monolingual Japanese dictionaries.[1][2][4] It might be considered proscribed by some.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝʑija̠ma̠]

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)山(やま) • (Fujiyama) 

  1. (uncommon, possibly proscribed) Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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