山
mountain
3 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 131.
Readings
- やま (kun reading): 山 (やま) mountain; 山梨 (やまなし) Yamanashi (city, prefecture)
- サン (on reading): 富士山 (ふじさん) Mount Fuji; 山地 (さんち) mountainous region
- セン (on reading): 山海経 (せんがいきょう) Classic of Mountains and Seas (classic Chinese text); 中山道 (なかせんどう) Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
- Read as a whole word: 山車 (だし) parade float; 山羊 (やぎ) goat; 山羊座 (やぎざ) Capricornus (constellation)
Components
- 山 radical mountain
Kanji containing 山
- 出 exit
- 島 island
- 両 both
- 岡 mount
- 崎 promontory
- 岸 beach
- 崩 crumble
- 岩 boulder
- 密 secrecy
- 徴 indications
- 微 delicate
- 仙 hermit
- 炭 charcoal
- 岳 point
- 岐 branch off
- 嶋 island
- 嶌 island
- 峡 gorge
- 峰 summit
- 嵐 storm
- 峠 mountain peak
- 嶺 peak
- 崔 cliff
- 崇 adore
- 岬 headland
- 巌 rock
- 幽 seclude
- 峻 high
- 峯 peak
- 嶽 peak
- 嵯 steep
- 峨 high mountain
- 峙 tower
- 乢 mountain saddle
- 屶 used in proper names
- 圸 steep slope
- 屹 towering mountains
- 汕 fish swimming
- 辿 follow (road)
- 妛 despise
- 岌 high
- 岑 peak
- 岔 fork in a road
- 杣 timber
- 岨 a rocky mountain
- 岫 gorge
- 岱 old name for a Chinese mountain
- 岶 dense mountain vegetation
- 岷 name of a Chinese river
- 岻 name of a mountain
- 岼 level spot part-way up a mountain
- 岾 mountain
- 峅 shrine in the mountains
- 疝 colic
- 峇 mountain cave
- 峩 lofty
- 峪 ravine
- 峭 high & steep
- 峺 obstruct
- 峽 gorge
And 41 more.
Words using 山
- 山 (やま) mountain
- 山梨 (やまなし) Yamanashi (city, prefecture)
- 岡山 (おかやま) Okayama (city, prefecture)
- 安土桃山時代 (あづちももやまじだい) Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
- 山梨県 (やまなしけん) Yamanashi Prefecture (Chūbu area)
- 富士山 (ふじさん) Mount Fuji
- 山地 (さんち) mountainous region
- 山 (さん) Mt.
- 山頂 (さんちょう) summit (of a mountain)
- 開山 (かいさん) founding a temple (on a hill-top)
- 山車 (だし) parade float
- 山羊 (やぎ) goat
- 山羊座 (やぎざ) Capricornus (constellation)
- 案山子 (かかし) scarecrow
- 山茶花 (さざんか) sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua)
- 山海経 (せんがいきょう) Classic of Mountains and Seas (classic Chinese text)
- 中山道 (なかせんどう) Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
- 須弥山 (しゅみせん) Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)
- 船頭多くして船山に登る (せんどうおおくしてふねやまにのぼる) too many cooks spoil the broth
- 雪山童子 (せっせんどうじ) young ascetic of the Himalayas
- 山 (むれ) mountain
749 words in all.