“山” is another Chinese character purely created from pictograph. To guess its meaning, let us see its evolution history (image get from http://www.vividict.com) -
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| Learn one Chinese Character a day - "山" |
Oracle script 
is composed of three 
. As what we have learned, three "三" is used to mean "a lot" when Chinese ancestors created our Chinese characters, during our learning of "众". So you can see that means a lot of . Some of you might already know its meaning. You will see it much more clearly with following Chinese drawing:
is composed of three . As what we have learned, three "三" is used to mean "a lot" when Chinese ancestors created our Chinese characters, during our learning of "众". So you can see that means a lot of . Some of you might already know its meaning. You will see it much more clearly with following Chinese drawing: |
| 山 - mountains |
In later stage of Bronze script 
, you can see that it is already very close to what we are using now - "山".
, you can see that it is already very close to what we are using now - "山".
so "山" means Mountains.
As usual, let us end today's lesson with Chinese calligraphy with "山" inside:
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| Learn one Chinese Character a day - "山" |
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