青山

Chinese
green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.) mountain; hill
trad. (青山) 青 山
simp. #(青山) 青 山

Etymology
“psycho”; “psychiatric hospital”
From 青山醫院 (Castle Peak Hospital), the first psychiatric hospital in Hong Kong.

Pronunciation

Noun

青山

  1. green mountains; mountains with lush forests
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, derogatory, slang) psycho
  3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) psychiatric hospital
    青山走犯 [Cantonese]  ―  cing1 saan1 zau2 faan6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a psychopath (literally, “an escaped criminal from the Castle Peak hospital”)

Synonyms
  • (green mountains): 蒼山／苍山 (cāngshān)
  • (psychiatric hospital): (Guangzhou Cantonese) 芳村 (Fāngcūn)

Derived terms

Proper noun

青山

  1. Castle Peak (a mountain peak in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong)
  2. (～區)
    1. Qingshan (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China)
    2. Qingshan (a district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China)
    3. Castle Peak (a former district of Hong Kong), renamed to Tuen Mun
  3. (～鎮) Qingshan (a town in Yunyang district, Shiyan, Hubei, China)
  4. (～醫院) Castle Peak Hospital (a psychiatric hospital in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong)
    去青山睇病 [Cantonese]  ―  heoi3 cing1 saan1 tai2 beng6 [Jyutping]  ―  to get checked out at Castle Peak
  5. Aoyama (a sub-district in Minato, Tokyo prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Etymology 1
青山 (Aoyama): the Aoyama family crest.
Kanji in this term
青 山
あお
Grade: 1		 やま
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
靑山 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 青 (ao, “blue or green; lush with life”) +‎ 山 (yama, “mountain”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) あおやま [àóyámá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠o̞ja̠ma̠]

Noun

青(あお)山(やま) • (aoyama) ←あをやま (awoyama)?

  1. a green lush mountain or mountainous area
  2. a type of fancy kamaboko (fishcake) used in ceremonies

Proper noun

青(あお)山(やま) • (Aoyama) ←あをやま (awoyama)?

  1. a Japanese habitational surname
  2. a place in the north of Minato-ku, Tōkyō
    So named as the land was deeded to Aoyama Tadanari (青山忠成, d. 1613; Wikipedia article) by Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康, d. 1616; Wikipedia article).
  3. various other places in Japan
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
青 山
せい
Grade: 1		 さん > ざん
Grade: 1
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
靑山 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 青山 (tsheng srɛn, literally “green or blue + mountain or hill”). Compare modern Min Nan reading chheng-san, or Mandarin reading qīngshān.

The 山 character is read san ordinarily. The san changes to zan as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) せ​ーざん [séꜜèzàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞ːzã̠ɴ]

Noun

青(せい)山(ざん) • (seizan) 

  1. a green lush mountain or mountainous area
  2. (metaphoric) a grave or one's final resting place
  3. alternate name for the 琵琶(びわ) (biwa), a four-stringed lute brought to Japan from Tang Dynasty China
Idioms
Idioms
  • 青山一髪(せいざんいっぱつ) (seizan ippatsu): "lush mountains, a single hair" → the mountains are so far away that they recede into the distance, seeming only as tall as a single hair is wide
  • 人間到(にんげんいた)る処青山有(ところせいざんあ)り (ningen itaru tokoro seizan ari); 人間至(じんかんいた)る所青山有(ところせいざんあ)り (jinkan itaru tokoro seizan ari): "wherever people go, there are green mountains", "wherever you go in the world, there are green mountains" → get out and see the world, don't be a homebody

Proper noun

青(せい)山(ざん) • (Seizan) 

  1. Qingshan, any of several places in China

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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