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山水

shān shuǐ

2-character word

What 山水 means

1. water from a mountain
2. mountains and rivers
3. scenery
4. landscape

Other readings

山水 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Shān shuǐSansui, Japanese company

The characters in 山水

• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 桂林山水甲天下。
  Guìlín shānshuǐ jiǎ tiānxià.
  Guilin's sceneries are the most beautiful ones under the heaven.

Words starting with 山水

• 山水画shān shuǐ huàlandscape painting
• 山水诗shān shuǐ shīshanshui poetry, genre of Classical Chinese poetry

Words containing 山水

• 青绿山水qīng lǜ shān shuǐblue-and-green landscape…