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Pinyin:
  
shān

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:
  
shan

Cantonese Yale:
  
sāan

Bopomofo:
  
ㄕㄢ

Wade–Giles:
  
shan

Jyutping:
  
saan1

Radical 46

Radical 46 meaning "mountain" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. It is found in the names of mountains generally in east Asia.

  • List of mountains in China
  • List of mountains in Japan
  • List of mountains in Korea

    • In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 636 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

    In Taoist cosmology, 山 (Mountain) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram 艮 Gèn. This diagram corresponds to the I Ching trigram ☶.

    Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

    • References

    Radical 46 Wikipedia
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