山
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mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 itself
- Structure
- Bottom enclosure 下包
- Traditional
- 山
- Common rank
- #8
- Unicode
- U+5C71
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 山 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
Three mountain peaks
Components 凵 丨
How to remember it
mountain · Heisig RSH #688
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 山
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山子 | rock garden; rockery | |
| 大山 | Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV person… | |
| 山区 | mountain area; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 山水 | Sansui, Japanese company | |
| 山水 | water from a mountain; mountains and rivers; scenery; landscape | |
| 中山区 | Zhongshan or Chungshan District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市[Tai2 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan; Zhongshan … | |
| 山头 | mountain top, esp. one occupied by a mountain stronghold; (fig.) clique; power base | |
| 中山大学 | Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou); Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung); Sun Yat-sen Univer… | |
| 中山 | see 中山市[Zhong1 shan1 Shi4]; see 中山區|中山区[Zhong1 shan1 Qu1]; Nakayama (Japanese surname); se… | |
| 中山市 | Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3] | |
| 人山人海 | (idiom) multitude; vast crowd | |
| 天山区 | Tianshan, a district of Ürümqi City 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 马山县 | Mashan, a county in Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nan2 ning2 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 山地 | mountainous region; hilly area; hilly country | |
| 天山 | Tian Shan, mountain range straddling the border between China and Kyrgyzstan | |
| 天山 | see 天山區|天山区[Tian1 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 马山 | see 馬山縣|马山县[Ma3 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 拉山头 | to start a clique; to form a faction | |
| 白山市 | Baishan, prefecture-level city in Jilin Province 吉林省[Ji2 lin2 Sheng3] | |
| 金山区 | Jinshan suburban district of Shanghai |
Sound family
These characters use 山 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山 sound part | mountain, hill, peak | |
| 仙 | god; fairy; immortal, transcendent | |
| 炭 | carbon, charcoal, coal | |
| 灿 | vivid, illuminating, brilliant | |
| 汕 | bamboo; basket for catching fish; Shantou | |
| 讪 | to abuse, to slander, to vilify; to ridicule | |
| 籼 | non-glutinous long-grain rice | |
| 舢 | sampan, wooden boat | |
| 赸 | to jump; to leave | |
| 疝 | hernia; to rupture | |
| 氙 | xenon |