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峨眉山 (É méi Shān): meaning and stroke order

峨眉山 (É méi Shān) means Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism, see 峨眉山市.

峨眉山

Simplified
峨眉山
Traditional
峨眉山 (same form)
Pinyin
É méi Shān

Stroke order of 峨眉山

峨

  • é lofty; name of a mountain
  • é variant of 峨[e2]
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 峩

Stroke by stroke

眉

  • méi eyebrow; upper margin
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

山

  • Shān surname Shan
  • shān mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 峨眉山

  1. É méi Shān
    • Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism
  2. É méi shān
    • see 峨眉山市[E2 mei2 shan1 Shi4]

Radicals of the characters

峨
Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 10 strokes · 山 on the left, 我 on the right
眉
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · built from 𠃜 and 目
山
Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 3 strokes · built from 凵 and 丨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

峨眉山 in our stories

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  • 峨眉山上曾经有一条白蛇，修炼了一千年，终于能变成人的样子。她给自己起名叫白素贞。

    Éméi Shān shàng céngjīng yǒu yì tiáo báishé xiūliàn le yìqiān nián zhōngyú néng biànchéng rén de yàngzi tā gěi zìjǐ qǐ míng jiào Bái Sùzhēn

    Long ago, on Mount Emei, a white snake cultivated itself for a thousand years until it could take human form. She named herself Bai Suzhen.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 峨眉山

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).