HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Nature, Animals

山 shān “mountain” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 山 means

  1. mountain
  2. hill
  3. (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

How to say 山

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale山shān1st tone, high and level

山 in a sentence

  1. 那座山很容易爬。

    Nà zuò shān hěn róngyì pá.

    That mountain is easy to climb.

    Sentence #874697 from Tatoeba

  2. 山全都是白的。

    Shān quándōu shì bái de.

    The mountains are all white.

    Sentence #13519455 from Tatoeba

  3. 这座山的景色非常美。

    Zhè zuò shān de jǐngsè fēicháng měi.

    The scenery on this mountain is really beautiful.

    Sentence #378273 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 山 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 山 (shān) with each of its parts in a different colour
山shānmountain; hill
  • 丨line · gǔn
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidDrawn from three mountain peaks: mountain.

How to write 山

山 3 strokes

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山 (shān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 山 (shān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 山

Words with 山

爬山páshān · mountain climbing山脉shānmài · mountain range

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FAQs

山 (shān) means “mountain” or “hill”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it shān: shān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 山 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 山 from the suggestions. Typing shan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
山 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.