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出 |
to come out, to go beyond, to occur, to rise
Two mountains 山 behind each other (traditionally "sent behind the mountains" for exile) Behind a mountain another comes out. |
岁 |
years of life, classifier for years (of age)
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. |
山 |
mountain, hill
Image of a mountain with tree peaks |
密 |
dense, thick, intimate, close, secret
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. |
微 |
tiny, miniature, profound, micro-
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. |
幽 |
secluded, hidden away, remote, to imprison
Outside: mountain 山, inside: threads 幺/糸 When the mountain appears as if behind threads, it is secluded and hidden. |
岸 |
shore, beach, coast, haughty
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. |
岛 |
island
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. |
催 |
to urge, to press, to prompt, to rush sb
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. |
炭 |
coal, wood charcoal, carbon
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. |
陆 |
mainland, continent, shore, land
Left: hill 阝, right: hit, strike 击 (here: roads 二 and mountain 山) There are hills, roads and mountains: It is the mainland. |
屿 |
islet
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.) |
仙 |
immortal, god, supernatural entity
Left: person 人, right: mountain 山 A person like a mountain, that is: the immortal god! |
岗 |
guard/post, position, job, mound
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. |
癌 |
cancer, carcinoma
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. |
岳 |
high mountain, highest mountain peak, wife's parents
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. |
峰 |
summit or peak (of mountain), highest level
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. |
崇 |
sublime, lofty, high, to esteem, to worship
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. |
端 |
end, extremity, item, port, margin
Left: 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. |
摧 |
to destroy, break, devastate, repress
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. |
崩 |
to collapse, to fall into ruins, death of emperor, demise
Top: mountain 山, bottom: friends 朋 (The two bodies 月/肉 next to each other are friends.) The mountain will, within two month's time, collapse. |
崖 |
precipice, cliff
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. |
峻 |
(of mountains) high, harsh or severe
Left: mountain 山, right: dawdle 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂) A mountain, that has a nose, legs and an 'upturned foot' must be high and harsh. |
灿 |
glorious, bright, brilliant, lustrous, resplendent
Left: fire 火, right: mountain 山 A fire on the mountain shines gloriously. |
捣 |
to smash, crush, destroy, attack, stir
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. |
碳 |
carbon (chem. element C)
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. |
嵌 |
to inlay, to embed, nesting, tesselation
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 |
蹦 |
to jump, to bounce, to hop
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. |
岂 |
how? (emphatic question)
Top: mountain 山, bottom: self 己 (Following the winding path I find myself.) On the mountain? Myself? What? How? |
峡 |
gorge, ravine
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. |
峭 |
high and steep, precipitous, severe or stern
Left: mountain 山, right: alike/resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.) Mountains are alike if they are high and steep. |
崭 |
precipitous peak, brand new
Top: mountain 山, below: chopped 斩 (The vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe 斤) The mountain appears chopped at a precipitous peak. |
岔 |
fork in road, diverge, to change the subject
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. |
岩 |
rock, cliff
Top: mountain 山, bottom: stone 石 In size between a mountain and a stone: a rock. |
岚 |
mist, name of a mountain
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. |
崎 |
mountainous
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. |
岭 |
mountain range, mountain ridge
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. |
徽 |
badge, emblem, insignia, logo
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. |
峙 |
peak, to stand erect, to pile up, to store, to stand up
Left: mountain 山, right: temple 寺 (= made of earth 土 and built with skillful hands 寸) The mountain has a temple on its peak. |
峨 |
lofty, towering, majestic
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. |
崛 |
towering as a peak
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. |
秽 |
dirt, filth
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. |
崔 |
high mountain, precipitous
Top: mountain 山, bottom: bird 隹 The mountain that is only (accessible) for birds, is a high mountain. |
薇 |
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
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. |
巍 |
lofty, towering
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. |
嗤 |
laugh at, jeer, scoff at, sneer at
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) |
嵩 |
high, lofty, Mt Song in Henan
Top: mountain 山, below: high 高 (guard tower) A mountain, that is high is: lofty. |
岑 |
a small hill
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. |
讪 |
embarrassed, to mock, to ridicule, to slander
Left: word 讠/言, right: mountain 山 Words in face of a mountain are embarrassed. |
崽 |
child, young animal
Top: mountain 山, bottom: to think 思 (... with your brain 田 and your heart 心) He would be (as big) as a mountain still thinks the: boy. |
巅 |
summit
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. |
峦 |
mountain range
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. |
嵋 |
(name of a mountain in Sichuan)
Left: mountain 山, right: eyebrow 眉 (The eye 目 is framed 尸 by an eyebrow.) This mountain is like an eyebrow. |
屹 |
high and steep, to tower
Left: mountain 山, right: to beg 乞 (There lies  a disadvantaged [from the second 乙 =two 二 class of society] and begs. [  = lying person 人] The mountain begs because it wants to be: high and steep. |
汕 |
reuse (trap for fish)
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. |
岐 |
divergent, side road, steep
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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