mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
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丨
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凵
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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.
狱
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犭
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讠
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犬
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Yu the Great (yu) opened an animal shelter in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), and she put up an advertisement column (讠) with the faces of her dachshund (犭) and her Saint Bernard dog (犬). For the dogs however the animal shelter is more like a prison (狱) because they are kept in small cages.
Characters with 嶽 as component
嶽
is not used as a component in another character.
Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan