Radicals › #46 山
山
山 — the “mountain” radical
The mountain radical. 20 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 山 radical (20)
山mountain島island崎promontory, cape岸beach崩crumble, die岩boulder, rock岳point, peak岐branch off, fork in road峡gorge, ravine峰summit, peak嵐storm, tempest峠mountain peak, mountain pass嶺peak, summit崇adore, respect岬headland, cape巌rock, crag峻high, steep嵯steep, craggy崚mountains towering in a row嵩be aggravated, grow worse
Radicals (部首, bushu) are the shared building blocks of kanji, used to sort them in every dictionary. Learn the common ones and new kanji stop looking random.
