山田

Chinese

		mountain; hill	field; farm
simp. and trad. (山田)		山	田
alternative forms		山塍 Min Nan 山堘 Min Nan

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāntián

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹ tin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāntián
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shantián
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹-tʻien²
    • Yale: shān-tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shantyan
    • Palladius: шаньтянь (šanʹtjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan¹ tin⁴
    • Yale: sāan tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹ tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: san¹ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵ tʰiːn²¹/

Etymology 1

Verb

山田

1. (archaic) to hunt in the mountain

Noun

山田

1. (archaic) low-quality farmland

Etymology 2

Proper noun

山田

1. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 山田, Yamada

Pronunciation 2

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soaⁿ-chhân

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soaⁿ-chhân
    • Tâi-lô: suann-tshân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svoazhaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /suã⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /suã⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰan¹³/

Noun

山田

1. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien, agriculture) terraced fields; terrace

Synonyms

• 梯田 (tītián)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
山	田
やま Grade: 1	た > だ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 山 (yama, “mountain”) +‎ 田 (ta, “field”). The ta changes to da as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やまだ [yàmádá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠da̠]

Proper noun

山(やま)田(だ) • (Yamada) 

1. a place name
2. a surname

Usage notes

This name is used as the stereotypical Japanese family name in 山田太郎 Yamada Tarō (male) and 山田花子 Yamada Hanako (female), similar to John and Jane Smith in English.