mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.

山 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
receptacle

Mnemonic symbol: receptacle as in wall plug.

Karl Marx (k) wants to recharge his phone in the anthill's living room (an3), but he can't find a receptacle (凵).

Characters with 山 as component

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) meets a bat (夕) in the bathroom of the Eiffel Tower (ei4). They make a bet: The one who is older (岁) will be allowed to eat the other using a fork (山).
high / sublime / lofty / to esteem / to worship

= + : Chantal Chicken (chu) is making some music in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) by scratching with a fork (山) over a blackboard (宗). The music's notes are quite high (崇). Soon she will be revered (崇) by many critics.
immortal

= + : Rosa Luxemburg and Marie Curie are merging their entities into a new superentity in front of the anthill. They are using forks to form the connection.
variant of 仙[xian1]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg and Marie Curie are merging their entities into a new superentity in front of the anthill. They are using forks to form the connection.
cliff / rock

= + : Maud Younger finds the anthill's kitchen blocked by a cliff. With a fork, she forks up the cliff rock by rock and frees the entrance.
variant of 巖|岩[yan2]

= + : Maud Younger finds the anthill's kitchen blocked by a cliff. With a fork, she forks up the cliff rock by rock and frees the entrance.
variant of 岩[yan2]

= + : Maud Younger finds the anthill's kitchen blocked by a cliff. With a fork, she forks up the cliff rock by rock and frees the entrance.
variant of 巖|岩[yan2]

= + : Maud Younger finds the anthill's kitchen blocked by a cliff. With a fork, she forks up the cliff rock by rock and frees the entrance.
wife's parents and paternal uncles

= + : Yu the Great (yu) buried his wife's parents and paternal uncles (岳) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). For each of them he set up a small mound (丘), and his wife's parents got the highest peak of the mountain ridge (岳). It was very hard for him to pile up the mounds because he used a fork (山) to do so.
surname Yue

Words with 山

Zhongshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3] in south China, close to Dr Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
Shanxi Province (Shansi) in north China between Hebei and Shaanxi, abbr. 晉|晋[Jin4] capital Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
Zhongshan Park, the name of numerous parks in China, honoring Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1]
Buzhou Mountain, a mountain from Chinese legend
Zhongshan or Chungshan District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市[Tai2 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan / Zhongshan District of Dalian 大連市|大连市[Da4 lian2 shi4], Liaoning / Chungshan District of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 shi4], Taiwan
Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists
NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943-), right-wing Japanese cabinet minister and prominent denier of Japanese war crimes
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) / fig. can't see the forest for the trees

Sentences with 山

ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
jiù
zhù
zài
hua̅
guǒ
sha̅n
shàng