산

san · TOPIK 1

mountain

산 — mountain

⛰️ 산 = hanja 山, the same mountain character as Chinese shān and Japanese san

산 is the Korean reading of 山, borrowed from Chinese. It matches Mandarin shān and the Japanese san in Fuji-san (富士山). It appears in compounds like 등산 (hiking, climb + mountain) and 화산 (volcano, fire + mountain).

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