山 shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 山 — mountain, hill, peak
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
山寨
shānzhài
mountain stronghold; counterfeit
Characters in this word
寨 zhài
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 木 tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 那个山寨依山而建，至今仍保留着古老的防御结构。 Nà ge shānzhài yī shān ér jiàn, zhìjīn réng bǎoliú zhe gǔlǎo de fángyù jiégòu. That mountain stronghold was built against the hillside and still preserves its ancient defensive structures.
- 山顶上的山寨已经有一百多年的历史。 Shāndǐng shang de shānzhài yǐjīng yǒu yībǎi duō nián de lìshǐ. The stronghold on the mountaintop already has a history of more than a hundred years.
- 这个手机是山寨的，质量很差，价格却很便宜。 Zhège shǒujī shì shānzhài de, zhìliàng hěn chà, jiàgé què hěn piányi. This phone is a knockoff: the quality is poor, yet the price is very cheap.
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