# 南山
## Chinese

* 南山 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 南山 (Cantonese)
* Nàm-sân-khî (Chhṳ̂m-chun) (Eastern Min)
* Lâm-san-khu (Chhim-chùn) (Southern Min)
* Nanshan (English)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Nánshān
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): naam$^4$ saan$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Nánshān
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Nánshan
*** Wade–Giles: Nan$^2$-shan$^1$
*** Yale: Nán-shān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nanshan
*** Palladius: Наньшань (Nanʹšanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /nän³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: naam$^4$ saan$^1$
*** Yale: nàahm sāan
*** Cantonese Pinyin: naam$^4$ saan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nam$^4$ san$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /naːm²¹ saːn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: nom srean
Rime :
| Character | 南 | 山 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 泥 (8) | 生 (21) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) | 山 (73) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | II |
| Fanqie | 那含切 | 所閒切 |
| Baxter | nom | srean |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /nʌm/ | /ʃˠɛn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /nəm/ | /ʃᵚæn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /nɒm/ | /ʃæn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /nəm/ | /ʂəɨn/ |
| Li Rong | /nᴀm/ | /ʃɛn/ |
| Wang Li | /nɒm/ | /ʃæn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /năm/ | /ʂăn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | nán | shān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | naam$^4$ | saan$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤ[ə]m s-ŋrar/
    (Zhengzhang): /*nuːm sreːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 南 | 山 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | nán | shān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nom › | ‹ srɛn › |
| Old Chinese | /*nˁ[ə]m/ | /*s-ŋrar/ |
| English | south | mountain, hill |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 南 | 山 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 9355 | 11052 |
| Phonetic component | 南 | 山 |
| Rime group | 侵 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 南 | 山 |
| Old Chinese | /*nuːm/ | /*sreːn/ |

### Proper noun

南山
* (～區) Nanshan (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
    南山必勝客／南山必胜客 ― Nánshān Bìshèngkè ― (Internet slang) an alternative name for Tencent, literally "the undefeatable one (in court) in the Nanshan District"
* (～區) Nanshan (a district of Hegang, Heilongjiang, China)
* (～區) Nanshan (a county-controlled district in Zhuolu, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China)
* Nanshan (various towns, townships, and subdistricts of China)
* Nanshan (a dormant volcano in northeastern China's Keluo volcanic field)
* Namsan (various hills and mountains of Korea)
** (～洞) Namsan-dong (a neighbourhood of Jung district, Seoul, South Korea)
** (～洞) Namsan-dong (a neighbourhood of Geumjeong district, Busan, South Korea)
* (historical) Nanzan (a former kingdom on Okinawa island)
* Short for 南山大学: Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan
* (uncommon) Alternative name for 祁連山／祁连山 (Qílián Shān, “Qilian Mountains, a range between Gansu and Qinghai south of the Hexi Corridor”).
* (uncommon) Alternative name for 終南山／终南山 (Zhōngnán Shān, “Zhongnan Mountains, a range south of Xi'an in Shaanxi”).
* (obsolete) Old name for 廬山／庐山 (Lúshān, “Mount Lu (prior to the Song dynasty)”).

#### See also

* 馬歡島／马欢岛 (“Nanshan Island in the Spratlies”)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 南 | 山 |
| みなみ Grade: 2 | やま Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi ||

### Proper noun

南(みなみ)山(やま) • (Minamiyama)
* a surname