山 (saan1 | shan1) : mountain; hill; peak

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山

saan1

shan1

[n] mountain; hill; peak

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Radical: 山 (#46)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

山

This word has been viewed 29260 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 12th Jul 2009 07:30

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兵敗如山倒 bing1 baai6 jyu4 saan1 dou2 bing1 bai4 ru2 shan1 dao3 = troops in defeat like a landslide; a beaten army in total collapse

火山 fo2 saan1 huo3 shan1 = volcano

山地 saan1 dei6 shan1 di4 = mountainous terrain

山水 saan1 seoi2 shan1 shui3 = landscape

山羊 saan1 joeng4 shan1 yang2 = goat

上山 soeng5 saan1 shang4 shan1 = go uphill; hold a funeral procession

山丘 saan1 jau1 shan1 qiu1 = hills and mountains

山竹 saan1 zuk1 shan1 zhu2 = mangosteen

活火山 wut6 fo2 saan1 huo2 huo3 shan1 = active volcano

山頂 saan1 deng2 shan1 ding3 = mountain peak; hilltop; (placename) Shan Ting
See all 383 compounds (CantoDict reports 387 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 12 examples containing 山

隻隻山羊都有兩隻角粵
Every goat has two horns.
[Lit. [counter] [counter] goat also have two [counter] horns. The "[counter][counter]都" pattern means "every".]

馬鞍山站係一個架空車站粵
Ma On Shan MTR Station is an elevated rail station.
[架空 means elevated rail (as opposed to underground).]

年卅呀晚呢度人山人海直情水泄不通粵
On the 30th night, this place will be completely filled with people, impossible to move.

爬到上山頂, 猛咁嗍氣。粵
I gasp for breath after climbing up the hilltop.

班山賊奸淫擄掠無惡不作
The gang of bandits rapes and pillages, and commits all kinds of atrocities.

而家噉嘅情況佢重有心情去游山玩水? 粵
He still has the mood to go for sightseeing at a time like this?

佢住喺座山度，不知幾咁隔涉，連車都行唔到粵
He lives up on a mountain, really secluded, you can't even reach it by car.

行山鞋價錢不菲粵
The price of hiking shoes is not cheap.

出現山獅蹤影
the appearance of mountain lion tracks

呢啲山路係咁𪙛𠸉㗎喇，千祈要用低波行呀。粵
You must engage low gears when you drive as these mountain roads are very uneven.

捐山窿 ? ?!
to slither through tunnel
[(to) traverse (a) tunnel lit. "crawl through a mountain cave" use of 捐 gyun1 -- although seen on internet, e.g. 火車捐山窿 (train going through tunnel), in cantodict gyun1 is not yet known as crawl through. maybe homonym with different character?]

火車捐山窿 ? ?!
train going through tunnel
[gyun1 is not definite character -- help would be appreciated!]

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Decimal representation of this word: 山
Unicode code for this character: U+5c71 (off-site link)

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