山（やま）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: odaka (tail-high) — high to the end, drops on a following particle (accent on mora 2)
Meaning: mountain
Example sentences
- 夏休みに高い山に登った。 — I climbed a tall mountain during summer vacation.
- 山の空気はとてもきれいだ。 — The air in the mountains is very clean.
Idioms & proverbs containing “山”
- 貧乏子沢山 (びんぼうこだくさん) — poor households have many children
- 愚公山を移す (ぐこうやまをうつす) — where there's a will, there's a way
- 貧乏人の子沢山 (びんぼうにんのこだくさん) — poor households have many children
- 律義者の子沢山 (りちぎもののこだくさん) — the morally righteous are blessed with many children
- 国破れて山河あり (くにやぶれてさんがあり) — the land outlasts the king; a country may fall but its mountains and rivers remain
- 人間到る処青山あり (にんげんいたるところせいざんあり) — home is wherever one lays one's hat; you can make your living anywhere in this world; there's room for us all in the world; wherever there are humans, there are burial places
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See it used in real works
- Example sentences from Japanese novels & web fiction (Massif)
- Hear “山” pronounced in real videos (YouGlish)