山 (shān)

Mountain; hill; surname Shan

How 山 is written

Strokes
3
Traditional
山
Simplified
山 (unchanged)

Common words using 山

人山人海 rénshānrénhǎi
multitude; vast crowd
佛山 fóshān
Foshan prefecture level city in Guangdong
冰山 bīngshān
iceberg; CL:座[zuo4]
唐山 tángshān
Tang Shan prefecture level city in Hebei
山東 shāndōng
Shandong province (Shantung) in northeast China, abbr. 魯|鲁, capital 濟南|济南
山頂 shāndǐng
hilltop
江山 jiāngshān
Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qu2 zhou1], Zhejiang
上山 shàngshān
to go uphill; to spin cocoon (silkworms); to pass away
中山市 zhōngshānshì
Zhongshan prefecture level city in Guangdong province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 sheng3] in south China, close to Dr Sun Yat-Sen's birth-place
丹霞山 dānxiáshān
Mt Danxia in Shaoguan 韶關|韶关[Shao2 guan1], Guangdong
九華山 jiǔhuáshān
Mt Jiuhua in Anhui, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Kṣitigarbha 地藏
乳山 rǔshān
Rushan county level city in Weihai 威海, Shandong

山 in a sentence

陽明山的風景很美。

Yángmíngshān de fēngjǐng hěn měi.

“The scenery at Yangmingshan is beautiful.”

How common is 山?

山 is the 259th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 61.4% of all running text.

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