The Chinese Radical: 山


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Meaning
mountain    山

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to come out, to go beyond, to occur, to rise
chū
Two mountains behind each other (traditionally "sent behind the mountains" for exile)
Behind a mountain another comes out.
JLPT HSK 1
years of life, classifier for years (of age)
suì
Top: mountain , bottom: evening (When the moon is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
Like a mountain pile up the evenings of years of my life.
JLPT HSK 3
mountain, hill
shān

Image of a mountain with tree peaks
JLPT HSK 4
dense, thick, intimate, close, secret

From top: roof , certainly (The heart is pierced by a lance - certainly!), montain
If under the roof is certainly a mountains of ..., then it will be dense and thick.
JLPT HSK 4
tiny, miniature, profound, micro-
wēi
Left: go , center: mountain , table , right: to strike 攵/ (hand with a stick )
Go to the mountain to the one table and smash it into tiny pieces.
JLPT HSK 4
secluded, hidden away, remote, to imprison
yōu
Outside: mountain , inside: threads /
When the mountain appears as if behind threads, it is secluded and hidden.
JLPT HSK 5
shore, beach, coast, haughty
àn
Top: mountain , below: 厈 (a cliff and dry ) [ = laundry rack for drying.]
It is mountainous with dry cliffs, at: the shore.
JLPT HSK 5
island
dǎo
Top: variation of bird 鸟 (= a bird with head , tail フ, and claws ), bottom: mountain (cf. islet 屿)
What (only) a bird can reach and where a mountain is: It's an island.
JLPT HSK 5
to urge, to press, to prompt, to rush sb
cuī
Left: person , right: high mountain 崔 (=mountain only for birds )
Person want to the high mountains, where only birds are: Thereto, they are urged.
JLPT HSK 5
coal, wood charcoal, carbon
tàn
Top: mountain , bottom: ashes (If sth. covers "cliff"--like the fire , it is the ashes.) (To make charcoal, wood is piled up mountain-like and covered and lit from the inside)
This mountain of the covered fire produces the charcoal.
JLPT HSK 5
mainland, continent, shore, land
liù, lù
Left: hill , right: hit, strike 击 (here: roads and mountain )
There are hills, roads and mountains: It is the mainland.
屿
JLPT HSK 5
islet

Left: mountain , right: and/together (arabic five 5 and one is "and"-connection), here: Variation of island 岛 (= mountain , which only a bird 鸟/ can reach)
The mountain which only a simplified bird can reach, get is an islet. (In comparison to island 岛, the bird has only space at the side of the mountain.)
JLPT HSK 6
immortal, god, supernatural entity
xiān
Left: person , right: mountain
A person like a mountain, that is: the immortal god!
JLPT HSK 6
guard/post, position, job, mound
gǎng
Top: mountain , below: hill /岡 (image of a hill)
The mountain and hill stand for the elevated position of a guard and generalized for a position or job.
JLPT HSK 6
cancer, carcinoma
ái, yán
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: 嵒 (goods [here: scattered metastases], mountain )
The disease where the metastases are mountain-like is: cancer.
JLPT HSK 6
high mountain, highest mountain peak, wife's parents
yuè
Top: hill (An axe in the ground as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill), below: mountain
Hills on the mountains make a high mountain.
JLPT HSK 6
summit or peak (of mountain), highest level
fēng
Left: mountain , right: sharp, pointed (sitting cross-legged on the top of growing plant )
The mountain is sharp/pointed at: the summit or peak.
JLPT HSK 6
sublime, lofty, high, to esteem, to worship
chóng
Top: mountain , below: religion, teaching (The 'roof' over the altar is the religion)
A mountains lofty like a religion is sublime.
JLPT HSK 6
end, extremity, item, port, margin
duān
Left: to stand , right: concentrated (like a mountain of beards )
(e.g. a hunter) He stand on the mountain with a beard at the edge.
JLPT HSK 6
to destroy, break, devastate, repress
cuī
Left: hand , right: high mountain 崔 (= mountain only for birds )
(To throw) by hand a "high mountain" on a bird brings destruction.
JLPT HSK 6
to collapse, to fall into ruins, death of emperor, demise
bēng
Top: mountain , bottom: friends (The two bodies / next to each other are friends.)
The mountain will, within two month's time, collapse.
JLPT HSK 6
precipice, cliff

Top: mountain , below: 厓 (cliff , heap of soil )
From the mountain down to the cliff and the soil: a steep precipice.
JLPT HSK 6
(of mountains) high, harsh or severe
jùn
Left: mountain , right: dawdle = go slowly (nose , legs , upturned foot )
A mountain, that has a nose, legs and an 'upturned foot' must be high and harsh.
JLPT HSK 6
glorious, bright, brilliant, lustrous, resplendent
càn
Left: fire , right: mountain
A fire on the mountain shines gloriously.
JLPT HSK 6
to smash, crush, destroy, attack, stir
dǎo
Left: hand , right: island 岛 (What (only) a bird 鸟/ can reach, with a mountain is an island.)
If a hand hits on a bird in a mountain-like way, it will be smashed.
JLPT HSK 6
carbon (chem. element C)
tàn
Left: stone , right: (char-)coal 炭 (This mountain of the covered fire produces the charcoal.)
The 'stone'-alike charcoal consists of: carbon.
JLPT HSK 6
to inlay, to embed, nesting, tesselation
qiàn
Top: mountain (here: mountain-like = an up-and-down profile/relief), bottom: sweet (mouth 廿 with sth. sweet ), lack (A yawning person is lacking sth)
In an up-down profile or an empty open mouth you can (where it is lacking) put in: an inlay or tesselation
JLPT HSK 6
to jump, to bounce, to hop
bèng
Left: foot, sufficient , right: collapse 崩 (The mountain will within two month / collapse.) [ = friends]
Feet make it collapse by: jumping.
JLPT HSK 6
how? (emphatic question)

Top: mountain , bottom: self (Following the winding path I find myself.)
On the mountain? Myself? What? How?
JLPT HSK 6
gorge, ravine
xiá
Left: mountain , right: squeezed in (A husband between persons (=) is squeezed.) [traditional: 峽]
The mountain is squeezing in: at the gorges.
JLPT HSK 6
high and steep, precipitous, severe or stern
qiào
Left: mountain , right: alike/resemble (Small bodies are alike.)
Mountains are alike if they are high and steep.
JLPT HSK 6
precipitous peak, brand new
zhǎn
Top: mountain , below: chopped (The vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe )
The mountain appears chopped at a precipitous peak.
JLPT HSK 6
fork in road, diverge, to change the subject
chà
Top: to divide (... with the sword in 8 pieces), below: mountain
The divisions in the mountains are forkings of the ways.
JLPT HSK 6
rock, cliff
yán
Top: mountain , bottom: stone
In size between a mountain and a stone: a rock.
JLPT no HSK
mist, name of a mountain
lán
Top: mountain , bottom: wind 风/ (It blows an insect =against a sail : The wind)
(From the distance:) It looks like a mountain and moves with the wind: The mist.
JLPT no HSK
mountainous

Left: mountain , right: strange (There is a big possibility (opportunity) , but it looks strange.)
In the mountains is the big possibility, that it is mountainous.
JLPT no HSK
mountain range, mountain ridge
lǐng
Left: mountain , right: command, order (A lid on the bent person, was ordered!)
Mountains, which are arranged as if on command, result in: a mountain range.
JLPT no HSK
badge, emblem, insignia, logo
huī
Left: to go , right: mountain , system, connection 系, strike 攵/ (a hand with a stick ) (stick in a hand)
Who climbs a mountain in connection that he already needs a stick in his hand, gets a badge for it.
JLPT no HSK
peak, to stand erect, to pile up, to store, to stand up
zhì
Left: mountain , right: temple (= made of earth and built with skillful hands )
The mountain has a temple on its peak.
JLPT no HSK
lofty, towering, majestic
é
Left: mountain , right: I, me (In my hand a halberd and I am myself)
A 'mountain' like I myself is: lofty/towering.
JLPT no HSK
towering as a peak
jué
Left: mountain , right: bow, crouch (The buttock [= butt's crack] comes out when crouching. = "plumber's crack or smile")
The mountain that comes out like a buttock, is: towering as a peak.
JLPT no HSK
dirt, filth
huì
Left: rice plant , right: years of age 岁 (Like a mountain , such (many) evenings are my years of life.)
The rice plants at the mountain at the evening are: dirty.
JLPT no HSK
high mountain, precipitous
cuī
Top: mountain , bottom: bird
The mountain that is only (accessible) for birds, is a high mountain.
JLPT no HSK
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
wēi
Top: grass , bottom: tiny 微 (Go on the mountain to the one table and smash 攵 it into tiny pieces.)
The plant that is tiny is this fern.
JLPT no HSK
lofty, towering
wēi
Top: mountain , bottom: Wei-Dynasty 魏 (entrust [Rice plants can women be entrusted], devil )
The mountains in the Wei-dynasty were lofty.
JLPT no HSK
laugh at, jeer, scoff at, sneer at
chī
Left: mouth , right: worm, ignorant 蚩 (below the mountain , insect )
The mouth (sees), that the mountain is like one insect and: laughs (about the ignorant worm)
JLPT no HSK
high, lofty, Mt Song in Henan
sōng
Top: mountain , below: high (guard tower)
A mountain, that is high is: lofty.
JLPT no HSK
steep, precipitous, a small hill
cén
Top: mountain , bottom: now (Put the cover into the corner フ Now!)
(Step by step you get up:) The mountain now is small and steep.
JLPT no HSK
embarrassed, to mock, to ridicule, to slander
shàn
Left: word /, right: mountain
Words in face of a mountain are embarrassed.
JLPT no HSK
child, young animal
zǎi
Top: mountain , bottom: to think (... with your brain and your heart )
He would be (as big) as a mountain is still thinking the: boy.
JLPT no HSK
summit
diān
Top: mountain , bottom: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte)
The mountain with an apex is: the summit.
JLPT no HSK
mountain range
luán
Top: also, namely (To see this variation as red , you can also do.) Here: horizon with four mountains, bottom: mountain
At the horizon the four mountains form a mountain range.
JLPT no HSK
(name of a mountain in Sichuan)
méi
Left: mountain , right: eyebrow (The eye is framed by an eyebrow.)
This mountain is like an eyebrow.
JLPT no HSK
high and steep, to tower

Left: mountain , right: to beg (There lies a disadvantaged [from the second = class of society] and begs. [ = lying person ]
The mountain begs that it wants to be: high and steep.
JLPT no HSK
reuse (trap for fish)
shàn
Left: water , right: mountain (here: image of a fish trap with holding rope )
It's in the water and looks like a fish trap.
JLPT no HSK
divergent, side road, steep

Left: mountain , right: twig, support (hand that holds a twig )
In the mountains is a 'twig' like a branching = divergent side road.
JLPT no HSK
snow-white, blinding-white
ái
Left: white (The shine of the sun makes it white), right: How? (Up to the mountain ? Myself ? How??)
The 'white' of the mountains themselves is: snow-white.

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