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山

Mandarin · pinyin shān#

mountain; hill (Classifier: 座 zuò)
(coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

Mandarin · pinyin Shān#

surname Shan

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山: shān · mountain, hill, peak

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saan1

Cantonese word readings for 山. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(countable) mountain; hill (Classifier: 座 m c; 粒 mn)
hill-shaped object
bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
gable
(Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin, Pinghua) tomb; grave (Classifier: 個／个 c)
a surname, Shan

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