新高山

Chinese

		new	high	mountain
simp. and trad. (新高山)		新	高	山

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 新高山.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xīngāoshān

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣㄍㄠㄕㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Xīngāoshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣㄍㄠㄕㄢ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shingaushan
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

Proper noun

新高山

(historical) Former name of 玉山, the tallest mountain on Taiwan Island, during the island's Japanese occupation.

Japanese

Etymology

From Torii and Ushinosuke's discovery in 1900 that Yushan was higher than Mount Fuji in the Japanese Islands.

Proper noun

新高山 (hiragana にいたかやま, rōmaji Niitakayama)

(historical) Former name of 玉山, the highest mountain on Taiwan Island.

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