Mountain in Chinese (Mandarin): 山 (shān)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 山

• 山

  Mountain. It began as a drawing of three peaks.

  3 strokes

First tone. Climbing a mountain is 爬山 (pá shān), and a volcano is 火山 (huǒshān), a "fire mountain".

More examples with 山

• 山上有很多树。

  山上有很多樹。

  Shān shang yǒu hěn duō shù.

  There are many trees on the mountain.

• 我们去爬山吧。

  我們去爬山吧。

  Wǒmen qù pá shān ba.

  Let's go climb the mountain.

How to write 山 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.