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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
- —山容shape of a mountain; form of a mountain
- —山塞mountain stronghold; den of mountain bandits
- —山陵mountains and hills; imperial tomb
- —山塊mountain mass; massif
- —山稜mountain ridge
- —山窩group of mountain nomads (in Japan); group of mountain people; the Sanka
- —山霊guardian spirit of a mountain; mountain god
- —山嶺mountaintop; summit
- —山麓foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
- —山巓summit (of a mountain)
- —霊山sacred mountain
- —鉄山iron mine
- —満山the whole mountain; all the mountains
- —離山isolated mountain; departure from a temple
- —山径mountain path
- —晋山taking up a new position as chief priest of a Buddhist temple
- —山砲mountain gun
- —山号honorific mountain name prefixed to a temple's name
- —五山five most important temples of a region
- —山内in the mountains; within the grounds of a temple