Mountain radical 山 (shān): 24 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Mountain radical 山 (shān): 24 characters山 (shān) is Kangxi radical no. 46, “mountain”. In this form it is written with 3 strokes.山 (shān) is three peaks; characters with it name mountains, peaks, islands and high places.The characters range from 3 to 19 strokes. 1 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 2 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 岁 (suì) years old / age, 山 (shān) mountain / hill.Characters with this radical3 strokes

山 (shān) - mountain / hill

6 strokes

岁 (suì) - years old / age

岂 (qǐ) - how?

屹 (yì) - to rise, to stand tall

屿 (yǔ) - island

7 strokes

岛 (dǎo) - variant of

岗 (gǎng) - post

岔 (chà) - fork in road

8 strokes

岸 (àn) - variant of

岭 (lǐng) - mountain range

岩 (yán) - cliff

岳 (yuè) - mountain peak

9 strokes

峡 (xiá) - gorge

峙 (zhì) - to pile, to stack

10 strokes

峰 (fēng) - peak, summit

峻 (jùn) - high

峭 (qiào) - high and steep

11 strokes

崇 (chóng) - high

崭 (zhǎn) - new, bold

崩 (bēng) - to collapse

崛 (jué) - towering as a peak

崖 (yá) - precipice

12 strokes

嵌 (qiàn) - valley, ravine

19 strokes

巅 (diān) - mountain peak, mountain top

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License