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昆仑山 (Kūn lún shān): meaning and stroke order

昆仑山 (Kūn lún shān) means Kunlun Mountain range.

昆仑山

Simplified
昆仑山
Traditional
崑崙山
Pinyin
Kūn lún shān

Stroke order of 昆仑山

昆

  • kūn variant of 崑|昆[kun1]
  • kūn used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]; (also used for transliteration)
  • kūn descendant; elder brother
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 崐

Stroke by stroke

仑

  • lún to arrange
  • lún variant of 崙|仑[lun2]
  • lún used in 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 侖

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 昆仑山

  1. Kūn lún shān Traditional 崑崙山
    • Kunlun Mountain range

Radicals of the characters

昆
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 日 on top, 比 below
仑
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 4 strokes · 𠆢 on top, 匕 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.

昆仑山 in our stories

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  • 白素贞醒来，看到丈夫已经没有了呼吸，心痛欲绝。她不顾怀孕的身体，飞到昆仑山去偷能起死回生的仙草。

    Bái Sùzhēn xǐng lái kàndào zhàngfu yǐjīng méiyǒu le hūxī xīntòngyùjué tā búgù huáiyùn de shēntǐ fēi dào Kūnlún Shān qù tōu néng qǐsǐhuíshēng de xiāncǎo

    When Bai Suzhen came to and saw her husband no longer breathing, she was heartbroken. Heedless of her pregnancy, she flew to the Kunlun Mountains to steal a magic herb that could bring the dead back to life.

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

Stories using 昆仑山

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).