字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE合5431
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Nature & Elements
山
山 mountain (top)
やまかんむり yamakanmuri
3 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 29
Your ink in 山0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Three mountain peaks. In the Oracle Bone Script, they were represented by triangles rather than vertical strokes.
Source: Wiktionary, 山 (rev. 93648109), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The peak at the top! Imagine the jagged summit of a great mountain overlooking the shore. This radical brings the energy of physical "height" and the "obstacles" of the landscape to a kanji. When you see it at the top, think of the "rocky" edge of a coast, the "islands" rising from the sea, and the "majestic" presence of a mountain guarding the land.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates mountains, height, coasts (where mountains meet the sea), cliffs, rocky terrain, islands, or concepts of majesty and rugged beauty.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 山, with sourced origins
- 岩boulderガン · いわ
山 + 石
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 山 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 2 kanji