江 jiāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 工 labor, work
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
江山
jiāngshān
landscape; country; state power
Characters in this word
山 shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 — mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他常说，所谓江山，不只是疆土，更是民心所向。 Tā cháng shuō, suǒwèi jiāngshān, bù zhǐ shì jiāngtǔ, gèng shì mínxīn suǒ xiàng. He often says that the so-called country is not merely territory, but where the people's hearts turn.
- 站在山顶，眼前是一片壮丽的江山。 Zhàn zài shāndǐng, yǎnqián shì yí piàn zhuànglì de jiāngshān. Standing on the mountaintop, a magnificent landscape of rivers and mountains lies before you.
- 古人常说，打江山容易，守江山难。 Gǔrén cháng shuō, dǎ jiāngshān róngyì, shǒu jiāngshān nán. The ancients often said it is easy to win a realm but hard to hold it.
Related words
- 江 jiāng river
- 山 shān mountain, hill
- 爬山 páshān to climb mountains; to hike
- 登山 dēngshān to climb a mountain
- 山区 shānqū mountain area
- 人山人海 rénshānrénhǎi a sea of people
- 山顶 shāndǐng mountaintop
- 山峰 shānfēng mountain peak
- 山坡 shānpō mountain slope
- 冰山一角 bīngshānyìjiǎo tip of the iceberg
- 火山 huǒshān volcano
- 山川 shānchuān mountains and rivers