山

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/山

Glyph origin
– three mountain peaks. In the Oracle Bone Script, they were represented by triangles rather than vertical strokes. Compare, particularly earlier forms.

Etymology
Unclear – cognates not known outside Sino-Bai. Cognate with 🇨🇬 < 🇨🇬.

propose that it is derived from a root that also derives, ,.

Starostin compares it with 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1)  mountain; hill
 * 2) hill-shaped object
 * 3) bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
 * 4) gable
 * 5)  tomb; grave
 * 6) . Shan
 * 1)  tomb; grave
 * 2) . Shan

Etymology 1
From. First attested in the  of 712.

Reconstructed as deriving in turn from.

Noun

 * 1) a mountain  or (large) hill
 * 2) a mine
 * 3) a heap, pile
 * 4) the top or high part of an object
 * 5) a climax, peak
 * 6) a chance, gamble
 * 7) a guess, speculation
 * 8) a crime, criminal case
 * 9) mountain climbing, mountaineering
 * : a festival float usually decorated with a
 * 1)   and/or
 * 2)  a wall, wall tile
 * 3)  the △ symbol as used to mark what needs to be reviewed in study
 * 1) mountain climbing, mountaineering
 * : a festival float usually decorated with a
 * 1)   and/or
 * 2)  a wall, wall tile
 * 3)  the △ symbol as used to mark what needs to be reviewed in study
 * 1)  a wall, wall tile
 * 2)  the △ symbol as used to mark what needs to be reviewed in study
 * 1)  the △ symbol as used to mark what needs to be reviewed in study

Etymology 2
From.

Sometimes spelled with, as -zan.

Suffix

 * 1) Mount, Mt.

Affix

 * 1) mountain
 * 2) mine
 * 3) temple, temple ground

Etymology 3
From, itself apparently a borrowing from. See 🇨🇬 for more.

The phonetic spelling  for mure appears first in the  of 720, but instead for the stem of verb. The first instance of this spelling for the sense is in the, in different  versions, themselves recompilations of the . This reading with this sense apparently arises from the traditional of a particular section of the , where the written word  is read as mure with an apparent meaning of  or.

Noun

 * 1)  mountain, hill

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * (tone class B)

Noun

 * 1) a mountain
 * 2) a forest, an area with grown trees
 * 3) a place where a heap of mountains grow
 * 4) a mess

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) a mountain
 * 2) a forested area of a mountain for harvesting, hunting, etc.
 * 1) a forested area of a mountain for harvesting, hunting, etc.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Compare 🇨🇬, and the etymology at 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a hill or mountain

Usage notes

 * No known Early Middle Japanese dictionaries attest the mure spelling phonetically, the earliest being found in the Mito-bon Hei Nihongi Shiki (1678).

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mountain