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  *山* | 山* | *山
mountain; hill (CL:) / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
HSK 1
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  *关* | 关* | *关
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve
HSK 1
to go for a hike (esp. in the hills or mountains)
HSK 2
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  *套* | 套* | *套
to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ)
HSK 2
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  *座* | 座* | *座
seat / base; stand / (bound form) constellation / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座) / classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
HSK 2
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  *腰* | 腰* | *腰
the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch; pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
HSK 4
to climb a mountain / climbing / mountaineering
HSK 4
mountain area / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
(mountain) peak
HSK 6
fortified hill village / mountain stronghold (esp. of bandits) / (fig.) knockoff (goods) / counterfeit / imitation
HSK 7-9
high mountain; alpine mountain
HSK 7-9
iceberg / ice-covered mountain / (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long / CL:
HSK 7-9
snow-capped mountain
HSK 7-9
the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
HSK 7-9
mountain road
HSK 7-9
(of mountains etc) to stand facing each other / (fig.) to confront each other
HSK 7-9
mountain ridge
HSK 7-9
to leave the mountain (of a hermit) / to come out of obscurity to a government job / to take a leading position
HSK 7-9
mountains and rivers / landscape
HSK 7-9
the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn
HSK 7-9
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容, Jiangsu Province
Purple Mountain Observatory
mountain building (geology) / orogenesis
Dayu mountain range between southwest Jiangxi and Guangdong
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嵝* | 嵝* | *嵝
mountain peak
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原, Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岭* | 岭* | *岭
mountain range / mountain ridge
Chinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok
mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain) / (dialect) bumpkin; simpleton; idiot
foot of a hill or mountain / (physiognomy) root of the nose (between the eyes)
Mi Shan, mountain in Shaanxi province / also written 密山
(military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain
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  *崮* | 崮* | *崮
steep-sided flat-topped mountain / mesa / (element in mountain names)
Jiugong Mountains (the location of Jiugong Mountain National Park), in Tongshan County, Xianning 咸寧|咸宁, Hubei
Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia
lit. if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *峠* | 峠* | *峠
(Japanese kokuji) mountain pass / (fig.) crisis point / pr. tōge
Pyrenees mountains
(literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded
(esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
high mountain / highest peak of a mountain ridge
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嶓* | 嶓* | *嶓
name of a mountain
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  *磪* | 磪* | *磪
a high mountain / precipitous
cougar / mountain lion / puma
deep in the mountains
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) / fig. can't see the forest for the trees
to cut into a mountain (to open a mine) / to open a monastery
high and cold (mountain area)
Sayan Mountains, on the border of Russia and Mongolia
Gaoshan aborigines (Taiwan), "mountain tribes" (Tw) / Taiwanese aborigines (PRC)
mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) / legendary mountain spirit
Rocky Mountains in West US and Canada
form of a mountain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *崔* | 崔* | *崔
(literary) (of mountains) lofty
mountain pass
Mount Huaguo in Jiangsu, featured in 西遊記|西游记, tourist destination / (also the name of mountains in other parts of China)
Yuecheng mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *陵* | 陵* | *陵
mound / tomb / hill / mountain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *峻* | 峻* | *峻
(of mountains) high / harsh or severe
wooded mountain; mountain forest
Tora Bora, cave complex in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan
mountain village
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岚* | 岚* | *岚
(bound form) mountain mist
Alishan mountain range in the central-southern region of Taiwan
river tracing / mountain stream climbing (recreational activity)
Nanling mountain, on the border of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi
Jiuyi Mountains in Hunan on the border with Guangdong
(bird species of China) mountain chiffchaff (Phylloscopus sindianus)
mountain area
Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
Kunlun (Karakorum) mountain range in Xinjiang
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum
Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岔* | 岔* | *岔
fork in road / bifurcation / branch in road, river, mountain range etc / to branch off / to turn off / to diverge / to stray (from the path) / to change the subject / to interrupt / to stagger (times)
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  *昆* | 昆* | *昆
used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑 / (also used for transliteration)
Zhongnan mountains, near Xi'an
towering / lofty and steep (mountains) / extraordinary / outstanding
mountains and rivers / the whole country
Tian Shan, mountain range straddling the border between China and Kyrgyzstan
Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Hengshan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嵩* | 嵩* | *嵩
(literary) (of mountains) lofty
spiritual influence (of mountains etc) / cleverness / ingeniousness
mountain of Immortals
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涧* | 涧* | *涧
mountain stream
foot of a mountain
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
bare and bald (of mountains) / bright and brilliant / fat and sleek
mountain ridge
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *跋* | 跋* | *跋
postscript / to trek across mountains
to climb a mountain / to scale a peak / mountain climbing / mountaineering
mountain range / CL: 條|条
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岫* | 岫* | *岫
cave / mountain peak
mountains / a range of hills
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  *庾* | 庾* | *庾
surname Yu / name of a mountain
rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
scenic lakes and mountain (idiom); beautiful lake and mountain landscape

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