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山 — mountain; hill

Pinyin
shān · Shān
Strokes
3
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

This character has more than one reading — shān, Shān — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 山: 3 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

山 — 3 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 山 in the HSK syllabus: 16

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 山shānmountain; hillHSK 3
  2. 山区shānqūmountain areaHSK 5
  3. 人山人海rénshān-rénhǎimultitude; vast crowdHSK 6
  4. 山顶shāndǐnghilltopHSK 6
  5. 山峰shānfēngpeakHSK 6
  6. 山坡shānpōhillsideHSK 6
  7. 冰山一角bīngshān-yìjiǎotip of the icebergHSK 7–9
  8. 火山huǒshānvolcanoHSK 7–9
  9. 江山jiāngshānrivers and mountains; landscape; countryHSK 7–9
  10. 山川shānchuānmountains and rivers; landscapeHSK 7–9
  11. 山谷shāngǔvalley; ravineHSK 7–9
  12. 山岭shānlǐngmountain ridgeHSK 7–9
  13. 山脉shānmàimountain rangeHSK 7–9
  14. 山寨shānzhàifortified hill village; mountain strongholdHSK 7–9
  15. 雪山xuěshānsnow-capped mountainHSK 7–9
  16. 愚公移山yúgōng-yíshānthe old man moves mountains; fig. where there's a will, there's a wayHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.