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山やま - yama
mountain
Definitions
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山 |
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) |
Pronunciation
yama
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