山河

shānhé

noun #34,188

Meanings

1 mountains and rivers
2 the land of a country
3 the nation (figurative)

Characters

Examples

祖国的山河多么壮丽。

Zǔguó de shānhé duōme zhuànglì.

How magnificent the mountains and rivers of our motherland are.

他誓死保卫祖国的山河。

Tā shì sǐ bǎowèi zǔguó de shānhé.

He vowed to defend his country's land to the death.

Tips

culture

Standard poetic shorthand for 'the country/territory'. Heard in 大好河山 (great rivers and mountains), 锦绣山河 (splendid landscape), and the chengyu 山河破碎 (broken land — a country in ruins).

Stroke Order

山 shān

河 hé