Radical 46 Explained

Uni:5C71
Meaning:mountain
Pny:shān
Bopo:ㄕㄢ
Gr:shan
Wade:shan1
Jyutping:saan1
Yale:sāan
Poj:san
Cn:(Left) 山字旁 shānzìpáng
(Top) 山字頭/山字头 shānzìtóu
(Bottom) 山字底 shānzìdǐ
Onyomi:サン san
Kunyomi:やま yama
Jp:山/やま yama
(Left) 山偏/やまへん yamahen
(Top) 山冠/やまかんむり yamakanmuri
Hang:메 me
Hanja:산 san

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

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

is also the 39th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Taoist cosmology, 山 (mountain) is the nature component of the bagua diagram gèn. This diagram corresponds to the I Ching trigram ☶.

Evolution

Strokes Characters
+0
+1 (= -> )
+2 JP (also obsolete variant form of -> ) (= -> )
+3 SC (=嶼) (= -> ) SC (=) SC (=)
+4 (= -> ) SC (=嶇) SC (=崗) SC (=峴) SC (=嶴) SC (=嵐) SC (=島)
+5 SC (=嶺) (=嶇) (=岧) SC (=崬) SC (=巋) SC (=嶨) SC (=嶧) JP
+6 (= -> ) (=峒) JP SC/JP (=峽) (=峛) SC (=嶢) SC (=嶠) SC (=崢) SC (=巒)
+7 (=峨) HK variant (=峰) SC (=嶗) SC (=崍) SC (=嶮)
+8 (=崇) (=崑) (=崖) (=崙) SC (=嶄)
+9 (=峙) (=岩) (=岩) (= -> ) SC (=嶸) SC (=嶔) (=崎) SC (=嶁)
+10
+11 (=嶄) (=島) (=島)
+12 (=嶛)
+13 (=峱)
+14
+15
+16 (=巃) SC (=巔)
+17 JP (=巖)
+18
+19 (=巔) (=巖)
+20 (=巘)

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.