Kanji1 / 3
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
- —富士山頂summit of Mt. Fuji; peak of Mt. Fuji
- —京都五山Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto
- —山陰地方San'in region; region of western Honshu incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures
- —山陽地方San'yō region; region of western Honshu incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures
- —水墨山水landscape painting in black India ink
- —治山ダムerosion-control dam; soil saving dam
- —廬山会議Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)
- —鎌倉五山the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, Jōmyō-ji)
- —複成火山polygenetic volcano
- —単成火山monogenetic volcano
- —火山列島chain of volcanic islands; Volcano Islands (Japan)
- —農山漁村agricultural, mountain and fishing villages; rural districts
- —山王権現deity enshrined at Hie Shrine (in Shiga and Tokyo)
- —銀山猿子pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)
- —山岳信仰religion that worships mountains as sacred (e.g. Shugendō); mountain worship
- —山王神道Sanno Shinto (branch of Shinto formed in the Tendai school of Buddhism)
- —複合火山complex volcano; compound volcano
- —楯状火山shield volcano
- —鐘状火山lava dome
- —臼状火山pyroclastic cone