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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| to come out, to go beyond, to occur, to rise
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Two mountains 山 behind each other (traditionally "sent behind the mountains" for exile)
Behind a mountain another comes out. |
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岁
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| years of life, classifier for years (of age)
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: evening 夕 (When the moon 月 is not yet fully there, it is only evening.)
Like a mountain pile up the evenings of years of my life. |
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山
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| mountain, hill
shān
山
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Image of a mountain with tree peaks |
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密
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| dense, thick, intimate, close, secret
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From top: roof 宀, certainly 必 (The heart 心 is pierced by a lance ノ - certainly!), montain 山
If under the roof is certainly a mountains of ..., then it will be dense and thick. |
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微
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| tiny, miniature, profound, micro-
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Left: go 彳, center: mountain 山, table 几, right: to strike 攵/攴 (hand 又 with a stick 卜)
Go to the mountain to the one 一 table and smash it into tiny pieces. |
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幽
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| secluded, hidden away, remote, to imprison
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Outside: mountain 山, inside: threads 幺/糸
When the mountain appears as if behind threads, it is secluded and hidden. |
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岸
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| shore, beach, coast, haughty
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Top: mountain 山, below: 厈 (a cliff 厂 and dry 干) [干 = laundry rack for drying.]
It is mountainous with dry cliffs, at: the shore. |
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岛
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| island
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Top: variation of bird 鸟 (=鳥 a bird with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬), bottom: mountain 山 (cf. islet 屿)
What (only) a bird can reach and where a mountain is: It's an island. |
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催
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to urge, to press, to prompt, to rush sb
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Left: person 人, right: high mountain 崔 (=mountain 山 only for birds 隹)
Person want to the high mountains, where only birds are: Thereto, they are urged. |
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炭
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| coal, wood charcoal, carbon
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: ashes 灰 (If sth. covers "cliff"-厂-like the fire 火, 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. |
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陆
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| mainland, continent, shore, land
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Left: hill 阝, right: hit, strike 击 (here: roads 二 and mountain 山)
There are hills, roads and mountains: It is the mainland. |
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屿
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| islet
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Left: mountain 山, right: and/together 与 (arabic five 5 and one 一 is "and"-connection), here: Variation of island 岛 (= mountain 山, which only a bird 鸟/鳥 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.) |
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仙
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| immortal, god, supernatural entity
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Left: person 人, right: mountain 山
A person like a mountain, that is: the immortal god! |
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岗
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| guard/post, position, job, mound
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Top: mountain 山, below: hill 冈/岡 (image of a hill)
The mountain and hill stand for the elevated position of a guard and generalized for a position or job. |
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癌
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| cancer, carcinoma
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Left: disease (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: 嵒 (goods 品 [here: scattered metastases], mountain 山)
The disease where the metastases are mountain-like is: cancer. |
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岳
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| high mountain, highest mountain peak, wife's parents
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Top: hill 丘 (An axe 斤 in the ground 一 as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill), below: mountain 山
Hills on the mountains make a high mountain. |
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峰
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| summit or peak (of mountain), highest level
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Left: mountain 山, right: sharp, pointed 夆 (sitting cross-legged 夂 on the top of growing plant 丰)
The mountain is sharp/pointed at: the summit or peak. |
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崇
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| sublime, lofty, high, to esteem, to worship
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Top: mountain 山, below: religion, teaching 宗 (The 'roof' 宀 over the altar 示 is the religion)
A mountains lofty like a religion is sublime. |
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端
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| end, extremity, item, port, margin
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Left: to stand 立, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而)
(e.g. a hunter) He stand on the mountain with a beard at the edge. |
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摧
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to destroy, break, devastate, repress
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Left: hand 扌, right: high mountain 崔 (= mountain 山 only for birds 隹)
(To throw) by hand a "high mountain" on a bird brings destruction. |
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崩
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to collapse, to fall into ruins, death of emperor, demise
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: friends 朋 (The two bodies 月/肉 next to each other are friends.)
The mountain will, within two month's 朋 time, collapse. |
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崖
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| precipice, cliff
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Top: mountain 山, below: 厓 (cliff 厂, heap 圭 of soil 土)
From the mountain down to the cliff and the soil: a steep precipice. |
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峻
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| (of mountains) high, harsh or severe
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Left: mountain 山, right: dawdle = go slowly 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂)
A mountain, that has a nose, legs and an 'upturned foot' must be high and harsh. |
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灿
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| glorious, bright, brilliant, lustrous, resplendent
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Left: fire 火, right: mountain 山
A fire on the mountain shines gloriously. |
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捣
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to smash, crush, destroy, attack, stir
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Left: hand 扌, right: island 岛 (What (only) a bird 鸟/鳥 can reach, with a mountain 山 is an island.)
If a hand hits on a bird in a mountain-like way, it will be smashed. |
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碳
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| carbon (chem. element C)
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Left: stone 石, right: (char-)coal 炭 (This mountain 山 of the covered 厂 fire 火 produces the charcoal.)
The 'stone'-alike charcoal consists of: carbon. |
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嵌
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to inlay, to embed, nesting, tesselation
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Top: mountain 山 (here: mountain-like = an up-and-down profile/relief), bottom: sweet 甘 (mouth 廿 with sth. sweet 一 ), lack 欠 (A yawning  person 人 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 |
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蹦
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to jump, to bounce, to hop
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Left: foot, sufficient 足, right: collapse 崩 (The mountain 山 will within two month 月/朋 collapse.) [朋 = friends]
Feet make it collapse by: jumping. |
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岂
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| how? (emphatic question)
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: self 己 (Following the winding path I find myself.)
On the mountain? Myself? What? How? |
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峡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| gorge, ravine
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Left: mountain 山, right: squeezed in 夹 (A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed.) [traditional: 峽]
The mountain is squeezing in: at the gorges. |
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峭
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| high and steep, precipitous, severe or stern
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Left: mountain 山, right: alike/resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.)
Mountains are alike if they are high and steep. |
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崭
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| precipitous peak, brand new
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Top: mountain 山, below: chopped 斩 (The vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe 斤)
The mountain appears chopped at a precipitous peak. |
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岔
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| fork in road, diverge, to change the subject
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Top: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces), below: mountain 山
The divisions in the mountains are forkings of the ways. |
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岩
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| rock, cliff
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: stone 石
In size between a mountain and a stone: a rock. |
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岚
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mist, name of a mountain
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: wind 风/風 (It blows an insect 㐅=虫against a sail 几: The wind)
(From the distance:) It looks like a mountain and moves with the wind: The mist. |
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崎
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mountainous
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Left: mountain 山, right: strange 奇 (There is a big 大 possibility (opportunity) 可, but it looks strange.)
In the mountains is the big possibility, that it is mountainous. |
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岭
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mountain range, mountain ridge
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Left: mountain 山, right: command, order 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩, was ordered!)
Mountains, which are arranged as if on command, result in: a mountain range. |
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徽
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JLPT no HSK |
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| badge, emblem, insignia, logo
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Left: to go 彳, right: mountain 山, system, connection 系, strike 攵/攴 (a hand 又 with a stick 卜) (stick in a hand)
Who climbs a mountain in connection that he already needs a stick in his hand, gets a badge for it. |
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峙
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JLPT no HSK |
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| peak, to stand erect, to pile up, to store, to stand up
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Left: mountain 山, right: temple 寺 (= made of earth 土 and built with skillful hands 寸)
The mountain has a temple on its peak. |
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峨
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lofty, towering, majestic
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Left: mountain 山, right: I, me 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am myself)
A 'mountain' like I myself is: lofty/towering. |
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崛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| towering as a peak
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Left: mountain 山, right: bow, crouch 屈 (The buttock 尸 [= butt's crack] comes out 出 when crouching. = "plumber's crack or smile")
The mountain that comes out like a buttock, is: towering as a peak. |
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秽
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dirt, filth
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Left: rice plant 禾, right: years of age 岁 (Like a mountain 山, such (many) evenings 夕 are my years of life.)
The rice plants at the mountain at the evening are: dirty. |
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崔
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JLPT no HSK |
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| high mountain, precipitous
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: bird 隹
The mountain that is only (accessible) for birds, is a high mountain. |
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薇
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
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Top: grass 艹, bottom: tiny 微 (Go 彳 on the mountain 山 to the one 一 table 几 and smash 攵 it into tiny pieces.)
The plant that is tiny is this fern. |
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巍
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lofty, towering
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: Wei-Dynasty 魏 (entrust 委 [Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted], devil 鬼)
The mountains in the Wei-dynasty were lofty. |
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嗤
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JLPT no HSK |
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| laugh at, jeer, scoff at, sneer at
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Left: mouth 口, right: worm, ignorant 蚩 (below 一 the mountain 山, insect 虫)
The mouth (sees), that the mountain is like one insect and: laughs (about the ignorant worm) |
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嵩
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JLPT no HSK |
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| high, lofty, Mt Song in Henan
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Top: mountain 山, below: high 高 (guard tower)
A mountain, that is high is: lofty. |
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岑
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JLPT no HSK |
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| steep, precipitous, a small hill
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: now 今 (Put the cover into the corner フ Now!)
(Step by step you get up:) The mountain now is small and steep. |
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讪
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JLPT no HSK |
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| embarrassed, to mock, to ridicule, to slander
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Left: word 讠/言, right: mountain 山
Words in face of a mountain are embarrassed. |
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崽
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JLPT no HSK |
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| child, young animal
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: to think 思 (... with your brain 田 and your heart 心)
He would be (as big) as a mountain is still thinking the: boy. |
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巅
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JLPT no HSK |
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| summit
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Top: mountain 山, bottom: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely 真 that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte)
The mountain with an apex is: the summit. |
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峦
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JLPT no HSK |
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| mountain range
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Top: also, namely 亦 (To see this variation 亦 as red 赤, you can also do.) Here: horizon 亠 with four 灬 mountains, bottom: mountain 山
At the horizon the four mountains form a mountain range. |
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嵋
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JLPT no HSK |
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| (name of a mountain in Sichuan)
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Left: mountain 山, right: eyebrow 眉 (The eye 目 is framed 尸 by an eyebrow.)
This mountain is like an eyebrow. |
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屹
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JLPT no HSK |
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| high and steep, to tower
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Left: mountain 山, right: to beg 乞 (There lies a disadvantaged [from the second 乙 = 二 class of society] and begs. [ = lying person 人]
The mountain begs that it wants to be: high and steep. |
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汕
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JLPT no HSK |
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| reuse (trap for fish)
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Left: water 氵, right: mountain 山 (here: image of a fish trap 凵 with holding rope 丨)
It's in the water and looks like a fish trap. |
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岐
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JLPT no HSK |
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| divergent, side road, steep
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Left: mountain 山, right: twig, support 支 (hand 又 that holds a twig 十)
In the mountains is a 'twig' like a branching = divergent side road. |
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