拼音
- shān (first tone, high and level)
mountain, hill
Mnemonic
Three peaks on a single base, the middle one tallest — a range drawn against the sky, and one of the few characters that still looks like the thing it names. It stands alone in 爬山, "to climb a mountain", and joins fire to make 火山, a volcano. Set above another character it flattens out, as it does on top of 岁.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.