登山

Chinese

		to go up; to climb; ascend to go up; to climb; ascend; mount; register; note; to publish; to issue; to record	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (登山)		登	山

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dēngshān

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄥㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹ saan¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): tên-sân

(Hailu, HRS): den^ˋ san^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): dên¹ san¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): teng-san

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dēngshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄥㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dengshan
  - Wade–Giles: têng¹-shan¹
  - Yale: dēng-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dengshan
  - Palladius: дэншань (dɛnšanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dang¹ saan¹
  - Yale: dāng sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: deng¹ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tên-sân
  - Hakka Romanization System: den^ˊ san^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: den¹ san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /ten²⁴⁻¹¹ san²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: den^ˋ san^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /ten⁵³ san⁵³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: dên¹ san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tɛn⁴⁴ san⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-san
  - Tâi-lô: ting-san
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dengsafn
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² san⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ san⁴⁴/

Verb

登山

to climb a mountain

Synonyms

健行 (jiànxíng) (Taiwan)
山行 (shānxíng) (literary)
爬山 (páshān)
登高 (dēnggāo)
行山 (haang⁴ saan¹) (Cantonese, literary)
𬦰山 (Hokkien)

Noun

登山

mountain climbing; mountaineering

Derived terms

登山家 (dēngshānjiā)
登山寶訓 / 登山宝训 (Dēngshān Bǎoxùn)
登山服
登山杖 (dēngshānzhàng)
登山車 / 登山车 (dēngshānchē)
登山運動 / 登山运动
登山靴 (dēngshānxuē)
登山鞋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
登	山
と Grade: 3	さん > ざん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) とざん [tóꜜzàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [to̞zã̠ɴ]

Noun

登(と)山(ざん) • (tozan)

mountain climbing, mountaineering

Synonyms

山登(やまのぼ)り (yamanobori)

Verb

登(と)山(ざん)する • (tozan suru) suru (stem 登(と)山(ざん)し (tozan shi), past 登(と)山(ざん)した (tozan shita))

to go mountain climbing, to climb a mountain

Conjugation

Conjugation of "登山する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	登山し	とざんし	tozan shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	登山し	とざんし	tozan shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	登山する	とざんする	tozan suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	登山する	とざんする	tozan suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	登山すれ	とざんすれ	tozan sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	登山せよ¹ 登山しろ²	とざんせよ¹ とざんしろ²	tozan seyo¹ tozan shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	登山される	とざんされる	tozan sareru
Causative	登山させる登山さす	とざんさせるとざんさす	tozan saseru tozan sasu
Potential	登山できる	とざんできる	tozan dekiru
Volitional	登山しよう	とざんしよう	tozan shiyō
Negative	登山しない	とざんしない	tozan shinai
Negative continuative	登山せず	とざんせず	tozan sezu
Formal	登山します	とざんします	tozan shimasu
Perfective	登山した	とざんした	tozan shita
Conjunctive	登山して	とざんして	tozan shite
Hypothetical conditional	登山すれば	とざんすれば	tozan sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“登山”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
登	山

Noun

登山 • (deungsan) (hangeul 등산)

hanja form^? of 등산 (“mountain climbing, mountaineering”)