杉 (shān)

Fir; cedar.

How 杉 is written

Strokes
7
Radical
木 — tree
Traditional
杉
Simplified
杉 (unchanged)

Components

Common words using 杉

洛杉磯 luòshānjī
Los Angeles, California
水杉 shuǐshān
metasequoia
紫杉 zǐshān
Japanese yew (taxus cuspidata)
鐵杉 tiěshān
Tsuga chinensis
雲杉 yúnshān
spruce

杉 in a sentence

山上有很多杉樹。

Shānshàng yǒu hěn duō shānshù.

“There are many fir trees on the mountain.”

How common is 杉?

杉 is the 2,712th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.8% of all running text.

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