Character · Nature
山
やま yamaやまじ yamajiさんが sanga
mountain
Composition
Origin
Pictogram: three peaks rising side by side.
In the thoughts
- 山路yamajimountain path
- 山河sangamountains and rivers
Proverbs carrying this character
- 005 塵も積もれば山となる Even dust, piling up, becomes a mountain.
- 104 山高きが故に貴からず A mountain is not noble because it is tall.
- 149 船頭多くして船山に上る Too many boatmen pull the boat up the mountain.
- 153 愚公、山を移す The old fool moves the mountain.
- 156 山あり谷あり There are mountains, there are valleys.
- 196 蝸牛そろそろ登れ富士の山 Little snail, climb, ever so slowly, Mount Fuji.
- 212 山路来て何やらゆかしすみれ草 Mountain path — something quietly moving: a wild violet.
- 214 梅が香にのつと日の出る山路かな Plum blossom scent — and suddenly the sun appears on the mountain path.
- 218 雲の峰幾つ崩れて月の山 How many cloud peaks have crumbled away — and here, the mountain under the moon.
- 234 分け入っても分け入っても青い山 However deep I go, and deeper still — blue mountains.
- 299 国破れて山河あり The country is broken; mountains and rivers remain.