cén
noun #45,991

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) a small but high hill; peak
  2. 2 (classical) surname Cen

Examples

Cén shì xiǎo ér gāo de shān.
A peak is a hill that is small but rises high.

Tips

history
is rarely used alone in modern Chinese. It meant a small steep hill in classical texts and survives chiefly as a surname (the Tang poet ) and in the literary state (silent and still).
register
Literary and onomastic; the everyday word for a small hill is 小山.

Components

radical
shān
mountain
(mountain) sits on top as the meaning radical, since the word names a kind of small steep peak.
phonetic
jīn
now; the present
supplies the sound; the reading has drifted from to .

Stroke Order

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