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  *山* | 山* | *山
mountain; hill (CL:) / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
HSK 1
to go for a hike (esp. in the hills or mountains)
HSK 2
to climb a mountain / climbing / mountaineering
HSK 4
to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set
HSK 7-9
to chatter idly / to gossip / to boast or brag
HSK 7-9
iceberg / ice-covered mountain / (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long / CL:
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *山* | 山* | *山
surname Shan
to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
see 中山市 / see 中山區|中山区 / Nakayama (Japanese surname) / see 孫中山|孙中山
rock garden / rockery
area in Beichuan county Sichuan
Hallasan Mountain or Mount Halla, highest mountain in South Korea
the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
HSK 7-9
volcano
HSK 7-9
to pile up like a mountain (idiom) / a mountain of (paperwork etc) / a large number of sth
half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory
Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor
rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
Wang Qishan (1948-), PRC politician
as secure as Mount Taishan / as solid as a rock
Kumgangsan Tourist Region in east North Korea
Mount Langya in Hebei
to leave the mountain (of a hermit) / to come out of obscurity to a government job / to take a leading position
HSK 7-9
steady as Mt Tai / as safe as houses
Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism
Mt Danxia in Shaoguan 韶關|韶关, Guangdong
Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV personality in PRC
Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Lantau Island, an island in Hong Kong
Mt Taibai in Shaanxi
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also transliterated as 火奴魯魯|火奴鲁鲁
Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live!
Jinggang Mountains, in the Jiangxi-Hunan border region
Taihang Mountains on the border between Hebei and Shanxi
Bagua Mountain, Taiwan
Buzhou Mountain, a mountain from Chinese legend
Panshan county in Panjin 盤錦|盘锦, Liaoning
going around a mountain
Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
Tian Shan, mountain range straddling the border between China and Kyrgyzstan
Wuzhi Mountain (1,840 m), highest mountain in Hainan / Wuzhishan City, Hainan
lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山 (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) / fig. to fail an exam / to fall behind (in a competition)
Mt. Fuji, Japan
Zhongnan Mountains, near Xi'an / also known as the Taiyi Mountains
deep in the mountains
famous mountain
Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, namely: Mt Wutai 五臺山|五台山 in Shanxi, Mt Emei 峨眉山 in Sichuan, Mt Jiuhua 九華山|九华山 in Anhui, Mt Potala 普陀山 in Zhejiang
sacred mountain
snow-capped mountain
HSK 7-9
Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains
Box Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia with a large Chinese community
Daqing Mountain in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
Pingshan county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾, Sichuan
Lanshan district of Rizhao city 日照市, Shandong
Yan mountain range across north Hebei
desert mountain / barren hill
Mount Sinai
Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道, South Korea
see 唐山市 / China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese)
Himalayas
with back to the mountain (favored location)
the sun sets over western hills (idiom); the day approaches its end / fig. time of decline / the end of an era / Sic transit gloria mundi
Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Beverly Hills
hilly land allotted for private use
Johor Bahru (city in Malaysia)
mountain of Immortals
Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
Mt Tai in Shandong, eastern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳
Tarzan (fictional character reared by apes in the jungle) / Taishan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
mine
Kazan
Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党 / same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙

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