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山
山 is a Japanese kanji written with 3 strokes, listed here under the keyword “mountain”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 830. It appears as a component in 35 other characters in this index.
- Keyword
- mountain
- RTK frame
- 830
- Strokes
- 3
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- サン, セン
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- やま
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- гора
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 山 mountain
Decomposition
No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.
Characters that contain 山
- 岩 boulder
- 炭 charcoal
- 岐 branch off
- 峠 mountain pass
- 崩 crumble
- 密 secrecy
- 嵐 storm
- 崎 promontory
- 崖 bluffs
- 徴 indications
- 微 delicate
- 仙 hermit
- 催 sponsor
- 崇 adore
- 岬 headland
- 端 edge
- 両 both
- 峡 gorge
- 岳 point
- 幽 faint
- 峰 summit
- 岸 beach
- 島 island
- 岡 mount
- 峻 steep
- 嵩 high-reaching
- 崚 rugged mountains
- 嶺 mountaintop
- 嵌 fit into
- 辿 track down
- 瑞 fortunate
- 癌 cancer
- 嶋 island (alternate)
- 峯 summit (alternate)
- 嶽 point (old)
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