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山 kanji
mountain
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
サンセン
Kun readings
やま
Words with 山
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —三霊山Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
- —実山椒green Japanese peppercorn; unripe Japanese peppercorn
- —山岳会mountaineering club; climbing club
- —山頂光alpenglow; alpine glow
- —造山帯orogenic belt; orogenic zone
- —野遊山outing to the fields and mountains
- —入山料mountain climbing fee
- —高山族Gaoshanzu; Gaoshan; indigenous tribes of Taiwan
- —山野草wild grasses and flowers (esp. as objects of beauty)
- —火山湖crater lake; volcanic lake
- —山岳賞King of the Mountains (cycling, esp. Tour de France)
- —神体山sacred mountain; mountain in which the spirit of a deity resides
- —山東省Shandong Province (China)
- —山西省Shanxi Province (China)
- —火山学volcanology; vulcanology
- —叡山菫Viola eizanensis (flower in the violet family)
- —東山道Tōsandō (area between the Tōkaidō and Hokurikudō)
- —山陰道San'indō (province roughly corresponding to the modern San'in region)
- —山陽道San'yōdō (province roughly corresponding to the modern San'yō region)
- —映山紅satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum)