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やま - yama



山
mountain


Definitions

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     1. n. a mountain (large mass of earth and rock) or (large) hill
     2. n. a mine (excavation usually consisting of small tunnels)
     3. n. a heap, pile
     4. n. the top or high part of an object
           (ja-x, ねじ山, ねじやま, thread of a screw, inline=1)
           (ja-x, 帽%子の山, ぼう%し の やま, crown of a hat, inline=1)
     5. n. a climax, peak
     6. n. a chance, gamble
     7. n. a guess, speculation
     8. n. a crime, criminal case
     9. n. mountain climbing, mountaineering
     10. n. (colloquial) (Mount Hiei) and/or w, Enryaku-ji
     11. n. (mahjong) a wall, wall tile
     12. n. (informal) the △ symbol as used to mark what needs to be reviewed in study
           やまを張る - to mark what needs to be reviewed
           はった山が当たった。 - My selection of what I needed to review for the test was correct.
     13. prefix. (prefix for species that are wild or residing in mountains)
     14. counter. (counter for number of stock rise and fall like a mountain) (rfv-sense, ja)
     15. counter. (counter for number of mountains, forests and/or mines)
     16. suffix. Mount, Mt.
     17. suffix.    suffix for names of mountains
     18. suffix.    suffix for a temple's honorific mountain name (山号)
     19. affix. mountain
     20. affix. mine
     21. affix. temple, temple ground
     22. n. (historical Ancient Korea) mountain, hill
           (synonyms, ja, 山, tr1=yama, t1=mountain, q1=general term, 丘, tr2=oka, t2=hill, q2=general term)

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