山 Radical 46 — mountain, hill
shān (first tone, high and level)
mountain, hill
Radical 463 strokes1 characters
Where the shape comes from
Three peaks rising from one base, the middle one tallest — a range drawn on the skyline. It names the thing itself in 山 and 火山, and it marks the shape of the land in 岛, 岸, 峰 and 岭.