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

Proper noun

岡山

  1. (～縣) Okayama (a prefecture of Japan)
  2. (～市) Okayama (the capital city of Okayama Prefecture, Japan)
  3. (～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)?

    1. Okayama (the capital city of Okayama Prefecture, Japan)
    2. Okayama (a prefecture of Japan)
    3. 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) 

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

    References
    1. 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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