| 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
1637 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鳩首 【キュウシュ】 going into a huddle
- 糾合 【キュウゴウ】 rally, muster
- 鶚 【ミサゴ】 osprey (Pandion haliaetus), fish hawk
- 軍鳩 【グンキュウ】 carrier pigeon, war pigeon
- 鳩槃荼 【クハンダ】 Kumbhanda, demon with large testicles believed to drain people of their vitality
Kun reading compounds
- 鳩 【はと】 pigeon, dove
- 鳩が豆鉄砲を食ったよう 【はとがまめでっぽうをくったよう】 like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)
- レース鳩 【レースはと】 racing pigeon, homing pigeon
- 白鳩 【しろはと】 dove
Readings
- Japanese names:
- やす
- Korean:
- gu
Spanish
- paloma
Portuguese
French
- pigeon
- colombe
| 5342 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1825 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2273 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 184 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 120 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 141 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1965 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 46648 | Morohashi |
| 163 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6936 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1946 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2096 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 11b2.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-2-11 | SKIP code |
| 4702.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-40-23 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9ce9 | Unicode hex code |