Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
mountain
Kun:
やま
On:
サンセン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
131 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shan1
Korean:
san

Spanish

  • montaña

Portuguese

  • montanha

French

  • montagne
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)
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

11 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
mausoleum, imperial tomb, mound, hill
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1746 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 陵 【ミササギ】 imperial mausoleum, Emperor's tomb, big hill
  • 陵墓 【リョウボ】 imperial tomb, imperial mausoleum
  • 帝陵 【テイリョウ】 imperial mausoleum
  • 皇陵 【コウリョウ】 imperial mausoleum

Kun reading compounds

  • 陵 【みささぎ】 imperial mausoleum, Emperor's tomb, big hill

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
reung

Spanish

  • mausoleo imperial
  • tumba imperial
  • cumbre

Portuguese

  • mausoleo
  • túmulo imperial

French

  • mausolée
  • tombe impériale
1908 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1912 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4998 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1646 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1874 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1310 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1844 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1996 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1886 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
742 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
660 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
400 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
497 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1532 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41704 Morohashi
544 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6454 New Nelson (John Haig)
1518 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1636 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1501 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3667 2001 Kanji
2d8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
7424.7 Four corner code
1-46-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9675 Unicode hex code