山 shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 — mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
山谷
shāngǔ
valley
Characters in this word
谷 gǔ
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 谷 — valley, gorge, ravine
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 清晨的山谷被雾气笼罩，远处的村庄像漂浮在水面上。 Qīngchén de shāngǔ bèi wùqì lǒngzhào, yuǎnchù de cūnzhuāng xiàng piāofú zài shuǐmiàn shàng. In the early morning, the valley was covered in mist, and the distant village seemed to float on the water.
- 汽车沿着山路开进了幽深的山谷。 Qìchē yánzhe shānlù kāi jìn le yōushēn de shāngǔ. The car drove along the mountain road down into a deep valley.
- 春天来了，山谷里开满了野花。 Chūntiān lái le, shāngǔ li kāimǎn le yěhuā. Spring has come, and the valley is covered with wildflowers.
Related words
- 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
- 江山 jiāngshān landscape; country; state power
- 山川 shānchuān mountains and rivers