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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
- —山陽学園大学Sanyo Gakuen University
- —山陽女子短大Sanyou Women's Junior College
- —日本火山学会Volcanological Society of Japan
- —環太平洋火山帯circum-Pacific volcanic belt; Ring of Fire
- —環太平洋造山帯circum-Pacific orogeny
- —アパラチア山脈Appalachian mountains; Appalachians
- —貧乏人の子沢山poor households have many children
- —律義者の子沢山the morally righteous are blessed with many children
- —日本登山医学会Japanese Society of Mountain Medicine
- —国破れて山河ありthe land outlasts the king; a country may fall but its mountains and rivers remain
- —ロッキー山紅斑熱Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- —大山鳴動して鼠一匹much ado about nothing; great cry and little wool; the mountain laboured and brought forth a mouse
- —人間到る処青山ありhome is wherever one lays one's hat; you can make your living anywhere in this world; there's room for us all in the world; wherever there are humans, there are burial places
- —火山噴火予知連絡会Coordinating Committee for Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions
- —箱根登山鉄道鋼索線Hakone Tōzan Cable Car
- —葷酒山門に入るを許さずbringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited
- —山椒は小粒でもぴりりと辛いsize isn't everything; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle
- —山陽小野田市立山口東京理科大学Sanyo-Onoda City University
- —山中の賊を破るは易く心中の賊を破るは難しit's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard
- —山嶽mountain chain; mountains