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. Aoyama (a neighborhood in the north of Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
    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. Aoyama (a former town in the Naga District, Mie Prefecture, Japan)
  4. Aoyama, Aoyama Station (a railway station in the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, 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. (figurative) 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 (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China)
  2. Qingshan (a district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China)
  3. Qingshan (several towns, townships and subdistricts in China)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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