/fu˨˩ taːŋ˧˧/VIETNAMCA → TR
Tanım
•Fusang, legendary land to the East commonly assumed to be Japan · synonym of Nhật Bản (“Japan (an island country in Asia)”)
Etimoloji
Sino-Vietnamese word from 扶桑 (an alternate Chinese name of the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), derived from the name of a legendary tree that was said to have grown somewhere in the East China Sea (東海 /东海 (Dōnghǎi)), where the sun rose. The name was also used to refer to the sun, and a legendary country that was located in the East.