山 (shān): meaning and stroke order
山 (shān) means mountain; hill (CL:座), (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on.
山
- Simplified
- 山
- Traditional
- 山 (same form)
- Pinyin
- shān
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Stroke order of 山
山
- Shān surname Shan
- shān mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 山
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shān
- mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4])
- (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
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Shān
- surname Shan
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 山
- 山头 shān tóu mountain top
- 上山 shàng shān to climb a hill; to go to the mountains
- 高山 gāo shān high mountain; alpine mountain
- 山口 Shān kǒu Yamaguchi (Japanese surname and place name); Yamaguchi prefecture in the southwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州[Ben3 zhou1]
- 华山 Huà Shān Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]
- 山川 shān chuān mountains and rivers; landscape
- 雪山 xuě shān snow-capped mountain
- 山顶 shān dǐng hilltop
- 山村 shān cūn mountain village
- 荒山 huāng shān desert mountain; barren hill
- 山丘 shān qiū hill
- 山坡 shān pō hillside
山 in our stories
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一天，小男孩阿山在山下看见一条很小的龙。
yì tiān xiǎo nánhái Ā Shān zài shān xià kànjiàn yì tiáo hěn xiǎo de lóng
One day a little boy called A Shan saw a tiny dragon at the foot of the mountain.
From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
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雨停了以后，山下出现了一道彩虹。
yǔ tíng le yǐhòu shān xià chūxiàn le yí dào cǎihóng
When the rain stopped, a rainbow appeared below the mountain.
From the story No umbrella HSK 3
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沉香长大以后，才知道自己的妈妈被压在山下，就下决心一定要把她救出来。
Chénxiāng zhǎngdà yǐhòu cái zhīdao zìjǐ de māma bèi yā zài shān xià jiù xià juéxīn yídìng yào bǎ tā jiù chūlai
Only when Chenxiang grew up did he learn his mother was trapped under the mountain, and he resolved to rescue her.
From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5
Stories using 山
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- No umbrella HSK 3
- Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5
- Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).