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Mythic Mandarin

华山 (Huà Shān): meaning and stroke order

华山 (Huà Shān) means Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五岳.

华山

Simplified
华山
Traditional
華山
Pinyin
Huà Shān

Stroke order of 华山

华

  • Huá abbr. for China
  • Huà Mount Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi; surname Hua
  • huā old variant of 花[hua1]; flower
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 華

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 华山

  1. Huà Shān Traditional 華山
    • Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]

Radicals of the characters

华
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 6 strokes · 化 on top, 十 below
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.

华山 in our stories

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  • 传说很久以前，华山上住着一位女神，叫三圣母。

    chuánshuō hěn jiǔ yǐqián Huà Shān shàng zhù zhe yí wèi nǚshén jiào Sānshèngmǔ

    Legend says that long ago a goddess called Sanshengmu lived on Mount Hua.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

Stories using 华山

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).