IDENTITY
山shānmountain
HSK 2Top 140
CORE MEANING
mountain
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.mountainHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 山mountain radical (shān)
- strokes
- 3
- Structure
- single pictograph
- IDS sequence
- 山
USAGE
Common words
爬山páshānto climb a mountain
高山gāoshānhigh mountain
山顶shāndǐngmountaintop
Graded examples
周末我们去爬山。Zhōumò wǒmen qù páshān.HSK2
We go hiking in the mountains on weekends.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Three peaks — a mountain ridge.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #140
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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