Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/山-shān

山 (shān)

Today, we will learn the Chinese character 山 (shān) which means "mountain" and is pronounced "shān".

This character refers to a mountain, mountain range, or hill.

山 (shān) is a pictograph depicting a series of mountain peaks.

As a radical

It's a radical in other characters like :

岗	gǎng	Mountain
岛	dǎo	Island
岸	àn	Shore
岩	yán	Rock
峰	fēng	Peak
崩	bēng	Landslide
岭	lǐng	Ridge
峡	xiá	Gorge

In words

The characters appears in words like:

• 爬山 ― pá shān ― to climb a mountain;
• 登山 ― dēngshān ― to climb a mountain
• 山川 ― shān chuān ― mountains and rivers;
• 山峰 ― shān fēng ― a mountain peak;
• 山頂 ― shān dǐng ― mountaintop;
• 山谷 ― shān gǔ ― a valley;
• 山僧 ― shān sēng ― a hermit (literally a "mountain monk")
• 冰山 ― bīngshān ― iceberg