青山

Mandarin · pinyin qīng shān#

Meanings · qīng shān

  1. green hills
  2. (the good) life
Mandarin · pinyin Qīng shān#

Meanings · Qīng shān

  1. see 青山區 Qīng shān Qū
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青
qīng · blue, green; young; Kangxi radical 174
山
shān · mountain, hill, peak
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cing1 saan1

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noun

  1. green mountains; mountains with lush forests
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, derogatory, slang) psycho
  3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) psychiatric hospital

name

  1. Castle Peak (a mountain peak in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong)
  2. (~區) — Qingshan (a district of Wuhan, Hubei, China)
  3. (~區) — Qingshan (a district of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China)
  4. (~區) — Castle Peak (a former district of Hong Kong), renamed to Tuen Mun
  5. (~鎮) Qingshan (a town in Yunyang district, Shiyan, Hubei, China)
  6. (~醫院) Castle Peak Hospital (a psychiatric hospital in Tuen Mun district, Hong Kong)
  7. Aoyama (a sub-district in Minato, Tokyo prefecture, Japan)

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青山 · qing1 shan1 · Qing1 shan1
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source lines 117,697, 117,696
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Exact source records青山 青山 [qing1 shan1] /green hills/(the good) life/青山 青山 [Qing1 shan1] /see 青山區|青山区[Qing1 shan1 Qu1]/