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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
- —山行mountain hiking; walking in the mountains
- —山彙mountain mass; small mountain range; group of mountains that are not part of a large mountain range
- —山家Mountain School (of Song-period Tiantai Buddhism)
- —山外Off-Mountain School (of Song-period Tiantai Buddhism)
- —群山mountain range; cluster of mountains; mountainous region
- —山月moon over a mountain
- —入山entering a mountain area (for climbing); entering a monastery; coming to live in a temple
- —当山this mountain; this temple
- —山名name of a mountain
- —唐山China
- —三山three mountains; three shrines (of Kumano); three kingdoms (of 14th and 15th-century Okinawa)
- —一山whole temple complex; all the temples on a mountain; one mountain
- —山主head priest (at a Buddhist temple)
- —山下foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
- —山体mountain shape
- —聖山holy mountain; sacred hill
- —山廊small buildings at the sides of a Zen temple gate (containing stairs to the upper storey)
- —釜山Busan (South Korea); Pusan
- —山童child raised in the mountains
- —東山eastern mountains; mountains to the east; Tōsandō (area between the Tōkaidō and Hokurikudō); Higashiyama (Kyoto district)