shān

mountain

Pictograph of a mountain.

Evolution

山 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
山 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
山 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
山 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
山 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shān

mountain, hill, peak; mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain; CL:[zuò]; bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons; gable

 

Shān

surname Shan

Most common words with 山
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hill

山东

Shandong province (Shantung) in northeast China, abbr. 魯|鲁, capital 濟南|济南

旧金山

San Francisco, California

山上

Shanshang township in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tái​nán​xiàn], Taiwan

山羊

goat

Component uses

Sound component in 12 characters (0 verified)

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ŋrar

srean

shān

mountain, hill


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 42.4155% of movies

699th most common character in movies

259th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+5C71

Shuowen

“山,宣也。宣气,生萬物,有石而高。象形。”


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