庐山

廬山

Lúshān

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Meanings

1 Mount Lu (in Jiangxi, famous scenic and literary mountain)

Characters

Examples

不识庐山真面目，只缘身在此山中。

Bù shí Lúshān zhēn miànmù, zhǐ yuán shēn zài cǐ shān zhōng.

I cannot know Mount Lu's true face — it's only because I'm standing on the mountain itself.

庐山的云雾非常有名。

Lúshān de yúnwù fēicháng yǒumíng.

Mount Lu's mist is very famous.

Tips

culture

A UNESCO World Heritage site near Jiujiang in Jiangxi. Su Shi's couplet 不识庐山真面目，只缘身在此山中 ('one cannot see Mount Lu's true face because one is standing on it') has become the standard Chinese idiom for the impossibility of gaining perspective from inside a situation.

Stroke Order

庐 lú

山 shān