Sinograph Addenda · Signs

mountain

Name	mountain
Reads	shān
Means	mountain, hill
Taught in	02 · The world in pictures

Where it comes from

Three peaks in a row, the middle one tallest — a pictograph that has barely changed in three thousand years. Taught in the pictures chapter.

How to remember it

A mountain range you could draw with three strokes of a stick — because that is exactly what it is.

In the wild

知者樂水，仁者樂山。zhī zhě yào shuǐ, rén zhě yào shān"the wise delight in water; the humane delight in mountains" — the mountain as the still half of the most famous landscape in the canon

Analects 6.23. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:006:30a · license: attribution.