～山
～さん · ～san · JLPT N2 · noun
mountain
⛰️ 山 = mountain; add ～さん after a name: 富士山 Fujisan = Mount Fuji
山 is drawn as three peaks. As a suffix it reads san, like 富士山 Fujisan. It sounds like the polite さん in Tanaka-san, but here it means Mount, not Mr or Ms.
山 — pictograph of three mountain peaks
山 is one of the oldest pictographs in Chinese, originally drawn in oracle bone script as three pointed peaks rising from a baseline. The form was simplified over time into the modern three vertical strokes on a base. Its meaning has stayed remarkably stable: 'mountain' or 'hill'.