Meaning & readings
mountain
On’yomi サン、セン
Kun’yomi やま
Nanori さ、やの、やん
Origin
山 is a pictograph of a mountain range: three peaks rising from a common base line, with the tallest in the middle. The early forms drew the peaks as rounded humps, which later became the straight vertical strokes of the modern character. There is no phonetic part — the shape itself is the meaning.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (山).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 3
- Kangxi radical
- 46
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #131 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+05C71