shān

mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain

HSK 3 #259

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 259th character
Radical ⼭ (46.0)
Strokes 3
Index # 39

Definitions

山 shān
  1. 1. mountain
  2. 2. hill
  3. 3. anything that resembles a mountain
  4. 4. surname Shan
  5. 5. gable
  6. 6. bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
  7. 7. CL zuò

Stroke order

山 stroke order diagram
山 stroke order animation

Words containing 山

Word Meaning
valley; gully; mountain region
Mashan county in Nanning nán níng, Guangxi
volcanic ash
to travel over land and water (idiom)
Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe
mountain ridge
Shandong, province in east China
Scientology
Pingshan, a place name in China
volcanic rock
rockery; rock garden
famous mountain
mountain torrent; mountain flash flood
halfway up a mountain; lit. waist of mountain
mountain and fields
tit
(dialect) pheasant; Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)
active volcano
volcanology
Mengshan county in Wuzhou wú zhōu, Guangxi
Zhongshan city in Guangdong; Sun Yat-sen
Himalayas
earthshaking; huge shock or upheaval
summit
exotic delicacies; luxury foodstuff from distant locations