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Mythic Mandarin

雪山 (xuě shān): meaning and stroke order

雪山 (xuě shān) means snow-capped mountain.

雪山

Simplified
雪山
Traditional
雪山 (same form)
Pinyin
xuě shān

Stroke order of 雪山

雪

  • Xuě surname Xue
  • xuě snow; CL:場|场[chang2]
  • 11 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 雪山

  1. xuě shān
    • snow-capped mountain

Radicals of the characters

雪
Radical 雨 (Kangxi radical 173) · 11 strokes · 雨 on top, 𫜹 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.

雪山 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 为了登上珠穆朗玛峰，岳峰准备了整整七年：攒钱、训练、爬了十几座六千米以上的雪山。

    wèile dēngshàng Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng Yuè Fēng zhǔnbèi le zhěngzhěng qī nián zǎn qián xùnliàn pá le shíjǐ zuò liùqiān mǐ yǐshàng de xuěshān

    To climb Mount Everest, Yue Feng prepared for seven whole years: saving money, training and climbing more than a dozen snow peaks over six thousand metres.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 雪山

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).