| 38 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 58 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 24 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 60 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1407 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 21 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 48 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 89 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.11 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 34 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 34 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 100 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 535 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3658 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1867 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2544 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 775 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 7869 | Morohashi |
| 2940 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1439 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 768 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 830 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 148 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 17 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
山
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
131 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 山 【サン】 Mt., Mount, temple
- 山陰 【ヤマカゲ】 place in the shade of a mountain, shelter of the mountains, mountain recess
- 治山 【チサン】 forest conservation, afforestation
- 開山 【カイサン】 founding a temple (on a hill-top)
- 山道 【ヤマミチ】 mountain road, mountain trail
- 山海経 【センガイキョウ】 Classic of Mountains and Seas (classic Chinese text)
- 雪山 【セツザン】 snowy mountain, permanently snow-covered mountain, Himalayas
- 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)
Kun reading compounds
- 山 【やま】 mountain, hill, mine (e.g. coal mine), heap, pile, crown (of a hat), thread (of a screw), tread (of a tire), protruding part of an object, high part, climax, peak, critical point, guess, speculation, gamble, criminal case, crime, mountain climbing, mountaineering, festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd), deck (of playing cards on table, face down, from which cards are drawn), stack, wall, wall tile, temple, temple grounds, wild
- 山陰 【やまかげ】 place in the shade of a mountain, shelter of the mountains, mountain recess
- 奥山 【おくやま】 remote mountain, mountain recesses
- 青山 【せいざん】 lush mountain, green mountain, grave, burial place
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さ、 やの、 やん
- Korean:
- san
Spanish
- montaña
Portuguese
- montanha
French
- montagne
| 1276 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3o0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-2-1 | SKIP code |
| 4-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 2277.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-19 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5c71 | Unicode hex code |
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2062 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 途絶 【トゼツ】 stoppage, interruption, cessation, suspension
- 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- 杜氏 【トウジ】 chief brewer at a sake brewery
- 杜撰 【ズサン】 careless, sloppy, faulty, using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing), piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors
- 杜撰脱漏 【ズサンダツロウ】 careless (slipshod) and with many omissions
Kun reading compounds
- 森 【もり】 forest, shrine grove
- 杜の都 【もりのみやこ】 Capital of Trees (nickname for Sendai City)
- 鎮守の杜 【ちんじゅのもり】 grove of the village shrine
Readings
- Korean:
- du
Spanish
- bosque
- arboleda
- bloquear
- cerrar
Portuguese
French
| 2188 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 423 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2103 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1030 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 559 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 739 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 14477 | Morohashi |
| 835 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2560 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2500 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2562 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 4a3.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-3 | SKIP code |
| 4491.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-46 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 675c | Unicode hex code |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 時鳥 【ホトトギス】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeon
Spanish
Portuguese
French
| 5351 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 46924 | Morohashi |
| 6967 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 11b7.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-11 | SKIP code |
| 6722.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-83-04 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9d51 | Unicode hex code |