山
shān
Pinyin

Definition

山
 - 
shān
  1. mountain
  2. hill
  3. anything that resembles a mountain
  4. CL:座[zuò]
  5. bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
  6. gable
山
 - 
Shān
  1. surname Shan

Character Decomposition

Compounds (38)

出
chū
  1. 1 to go out
  2. 2 to come out
  3. 3 to occur
  4. 4 to produce
  5. 5 to go beyond
  6. 6 to rise
  7. 7 to put forth
  8. 8 to happen
  9. 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
  10. 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
出
chū
  1. 1 variant: 出 chū
山
Shān
  1. 1 surname Shan
山
shān
  1. 1 mountain
  2. 2 hill
  3. 3 anything that resembles a mountain
  4. 4 classifier: 座 zuò
  5. 5 bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
  6. 6 gable
击
jī
  1. 1 to hit
  2. 2 to strike
  3. 3 to break
  4. 4 Taiwan pr. [jí]

Related Words (20)

中山
Zhōng shān
  1. 1 refers to Dr Sun Yat-sen
  2. 2 Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
  3. 3 Nakayama (Japanese surname)
人山人海
rén shān rén hǎi
  1. 1 multitude
  2. 2 vast crowd
佛山
Fó shān
  1. 1 Foshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong
冰山
bīng shān
  1. 1 iceberg
  2. 2 classifier: 座 zuò
唐山
Táng shān
  1. 1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei

Idioms (20)

一山不容二虎
yī shān bù róng èr hǔ
  1. 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
  3. 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
不识泰山
bù shí Tài Shān
  1. 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
他山之石可以攻玉
tā shān zhī shí kě yǐ gōng yù
  1. 1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
  2. 2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively
兵败如山倒
bīng bài rú shān dǎo
  1. 1 troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

Sample Sentences

先生说，“错了。是山西，不是陕西。”他说：“陕西同山西，不是差不多吗？”
xiānsheng shuō ，“cuò le 。shì Shānxī ，búshi Shǎnxī 。”tā shuō ：“Shǎnxī tóng Shānxī ，búshi chàbuduō ma ？”
“Wrong!” the teacher corrected him. “It is Shanxi not Shaanxi.” Mr. Chabuduo said, “Well aren't Shanxi and Shaanxi just about the same?"
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去山上呢？还是去海边呢？
qù shān shàng ne ？háishi qù hǎibiān ne ？
Are we going to the mountains? Or the seaside?
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远上寒山石径斜，
yuǎn shàng hán shān shíjìng xiá ，
Far away on the cold mountain stone path
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山行
shānxíng
Walking in the mountains
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据世卫组织报告，全球新冠肺炎确诊人数已超过127万，病亡人数逾7万。中国工程院院士、著名呼吸病学专家钟南山说：“希望各国都能继续全力投入到疫情防控中去，相信我们终将战胜疫情。”
jù ShìwèiZǔzhī bàogào ，quánqiú xīnguānfèiyán quèzhěn rénshù yǐ chāoguò yībǎièrshíqī wàn ，bìngwáng rénshù yú qī wàn 。ZhōngguóGōngchéngyuàn yuànshì 、zhùmíng hūxībìngxué zhuānjiā zhōngnánshān shuō ：“xīwàng gèguó dōu néng jìxù quánlì tóurù dào yìqíng fángkòng zhōng qù ，xiāngxìn wǒmen zhōngjiāng zhànshèng yìqíng 。”
According to a WHO report, confirmed cases of COVID-19 has exceeded 1.27 million, and caused around 70 thousand deaths. Zhong Nan Shan, a fellow of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a renowned respiratory expert said, "I hope every country is putting every effort into preventing and controlling the pandemic, and I believe that we will defeat it as last."
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山东
shān dōng
Shandong
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山西
shān Xī
Shanxi
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夏日山中
xiàrì shānzhōng
Summer in the mountains
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祝你福如东海，寿比南山。
Zhù nǐ fúrúDōngHǎi ，shòubǐNánShān 。
I wish you are happy and lucky as the East China sea, and live as long as the mountain.
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下星期，Joe要去爬山。
xiàxīngqī ， yào qù páshān 。
Joe is going hiking next week.
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