Radical 46
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 46 | uni |
| meaning | mountain |
| pny | shān |
| bopo | ㄕㄢ |
| gr | shan |
| wade | shan1 |
| jyutping | saan1 |
| yale | sāan |
| poj | san |
| cn | (Left) 山字旁 shānzìpáng |
| (Top) 山字頭/山字头 shānzìtóu | |
| (Bottom) 山字底 shānzìdǐ | |
| onyomi | サン san |
| kunyomi | やま yama |
| jp | 山/やま yama |
| (Left) 山偏/やまへん yamahen | |
| (Top) 山冠/やまかんむり yamakanmuri | |
| hang | 메 me |
| hanja | 산 san |
| :: |
|46|uni=5C71 |meaning=mountain |pny= shān |bopo= ㄕㄢ |gr= shan |wade= shan1 |jyutping= saan1 |yale= sāan |poj= san |cn= (Left) 山字旁 shānzìpáng (Top) 山字頭/山字头 shānzìtóu (Bottom) 山字底 shānzìdǐ |onyomi= サン san |kunyomi= やま yama |jp= 山/やま yama (Left) 山偏/やまへん yamahen (Top) 山冠/やまかんむり yamakanmuri |hang= 메 me |hanja= 산 san
Radical 46 or radical mountain (山部) meaning "mountain" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. It is found in the names of mountains generally in east Asia.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 636 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
山 is also the 39th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Taoist cosmology, 山 (mountain) is the nature component of the bagua diagram 艮 gèn. This diagram corresponds to the I Ching trigram ☶.
Evolution
File:山-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:山-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:山-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:山-seal.svg|Small seal script character
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 山 |
| +1 | 乢 (=蓋 - 艸) 屲 |
| +2 | 屳 屴 屵 屶JP (also obsolete variant form of 會 - 曰) 屷 (=會 - 曰) |
| +3 | 屸 屹 屺 屻 屼 屽 屾 屿SC (=嶼) 岀 (=出 - 凵) 岁SC (=歲) 岂SC (=豈) 岃 |
| +4 | 岄 岅 (=阪 - 阜) 岆 岇 岈 岉 岊 岋 岌 岎 岏 岐 岑 岒 岓 岔 岕 岖SC (=嶇) 岗SC (=崗) 岘SC (=峴) 岙SC (=嶴) 岚SC (=嵐) 岛SC (=島) 岜 |
| +5 | 岝 岞 岟 岠 岡 岢 岣 岤 岥 岦 岧 岨 岩 岪 岫 岬 岭SC (=嶺) 岮 岯 岰 岱 岲 岳 岴 (=嶇) 岵 岶 岷 岸 岹 (=岧) 岺 岻 岼 岽SC (=崬) 岾 岿SC (=巋) 峀 峁 峂 峃SC (=嶨) 峄SC (=嶧) 峅JP |
| +6 | 岍 峆 峇 峈 峉 峊 峋 峌 峍 峎 峏 峐 峑 峒 峓 峔 峕 (=時 - 日) 峖 峗 峘 峙 峚 峛 峜 峝 (=峒) 峞 峟 峠JP 峡SC/JP (=峽) 峢 (=峛) 峣SC (=嶢) 峤SC (=嶠) 峥SC (=崢) 峦SC (=巒) 峧 |
| +7 | 峨 峩 (=峨) 峪 峫 峬 峭 峮 峯HK variant (=峰) 峰 峱 峲 峳 峴 峵 島 峷 峸 峹 峺 峻 峼 峽 峾 峿 崀 崁 崂SC (=嶗) 崃SC (=崍) 崄SC (=嶮) 崅 |
| +8 | 崆 崇 崈 (=崇) 崉 崊 崋 崌 崍 崎 崏 崐 (=崑) 崑 崒 崓 崔 崕 (=崖) 崖 崗 崘 (=崙) 崙 崚 崛 崜 崝 崞 崟 崠 崡 崢 崣 崤 崥 崦 崧 崨 崩 崪 崫 崬 崭SC (=嶄) 崮 崯 崰 |
| +9 | 崱 崲 崳 崴 崵 崶 崷 崸 崹 崺 崻 (=峙) 崼 崽 崾 崿 嵀 嵁 嵂 嵃 嵄 嵅 嵆 嵇 嵈 嵉 嵋 嵌 嵍 嵎 嵏 嵐 嵑 嵒 (=岩) 嵓 (=岩) 嵔 嵕 嵖 嵗 (=歲 - 止) 嵘SC (=嶸) 嵙 嵚SC (=嶔) 嵛 嵜 (=崎) 嵝SC (=嶁) |
| +10 | 嵊 嵞 嵟 嵠 嵡 嵢 嵣 嵤 嵥 嵦 嵧 嵨 嵩 嵪 嵫 嵬 嵭 嵮 嵯 嵰 嵱 嵲 嵳 嵴 嵵 嵶 |
| +11 | 嵷 嵸 嵹 嵺 嵻 嵼 嵽 嵾 嵿 嶀 嶁 嶂 嶃 (=嶄) 嶄 嶅 嶆 嶇 嶈 嶉 嶊 嶋 (=島) 嶌 (=島) 嶍 嶎 |
| +12 | 嶏 嶐 嶑 嶒 嶓 嶔 嶕 嶖 嶗 嶘 嶙 嶚 (=嶛) 嶛 嶜 嶝 嶞 嶟 嶠 嶡 嶢 嶣 嶤 嶥 |
| +13 | 嶦 嶧 嶨 嶩 (=峱) 嶪 嶫 嶬 嶭 嶮 嶯 嶰 嶱 嶲 嶳 嶴 嶵 嶶 |
| +14 | 嶷 嶸 嶹 嶺 嶼 嶽 嶾 嶿 |
| +15 | 巀 巁 巂 |
| +16 | 嶻 巃 巄 (=巃) 巅SC (=巔) |
| +17 | 巆 巇 巈 巉 巊 巋 巌JP (=巖) |
| +18 | 巍 巏 巐 |
| +19 | 巎 巑 巒 巓 (=巔) 巔 巕 巗 (=巖) |
| +20 | 巖 巘 巙 巚 (=巘) |
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Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.
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