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山脉

shān mài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 山脈 Measure word 条

山脉 (shān mài) means "mountain range". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 山脉 means

1. mountain range

The characters in 山脉

• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 脉màiarteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

Example sentences

• 我在亚平宁山脉看到了狼。
  Wǒ zài Yàpíngníng Shānmài kàn dào le láng.
  I saw wolves in the Appennines.
• 这是安第斯山脉的最高峰。
  It's the highest mountain in the Andes.
• 并非所有峡湾周围都有山脉。
  Not all fjords have mountains around them.
• 喜马拉雅山脉比阿尔卑斯山脉高。
  The Himalayas are higher than the Alps.
• 阿尔卑斯山脉横跨八个欧洲国家。
  The Alps extend across eight European countries.
• 这是阿尔卑斯山脉最高的山峰之一。
  It's among the highest mountains in the Alps.

Words containing 山脉

• 安南山脉Ān nán Shān màiAnnamite Range, aka Annamese Cordillera, mountain range forming the border between…
• 横断山脉Héng duàn shān màiHengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan…
• 若开山脉Ruò kāi shān màiArakan Yoma, mountain range in western Myanmar (Burma)
• 贺兰山脉Hè lán Shān màiHelan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
• 长山山脉Cháng shān Shān màiAnnamite Range, aka Annamese Cordillera, mountain range forming the border between…
• 博格达山脉Bó gé dá Shān màiBogda Shan mountain range in the Tian Shan mountains
• 安第斯山脉Ān dì sī Shān màithe Andes Mountains (in South America)
• 乌拉尔山脉Wū lā ěr Shān màiUral Mountains
• 阿拉干山脉Ā lā gān Shān màiArakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
• 阿尔泰山脉Ā ěr tài shān màiAltai mountain chain on the border of Russia and Mongolia
• 高加索山脉Gāo jiā suǒ Shān màiCaucasus Mountains
• 喜马拉雅山脉Xǐ mǎ lā yǎ shān màiHimalayas
• 扎格罗斯山脉Zā gé luó sī shān màiZagros mountains of southwest Iran
• 勃固山脉Bó gù shān màiPegu Yoma (mountain range) of south central Myanmar (Burma), separating Irrawaddy and…
• 唐古拉山脉Táng gǔ lā Shān màiDangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
• 锡霍特山脉Xī huò tè shān màiSichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
• 坎塔布连山脉Kǎn tǎ bù lián shān màiCantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon
• 洛矶山脉Luò jī Shān màiRocky Mountains
• 冈底斯山脉Gāng dǐ sī shān màiGangdisê mountain range in southwest Tibet
• 大兴安岭山脉Dà xīng ān lǐng shān màiDaxing'anling mountain range in northwest Heilongjiang province
• 昆仑山脉Kūn lún shān màiKunlun Mountain range
• 秦岭山脉Qín lǐng Shān màiQinling Mountain Range in Shaanxi, forming a natural barrier between the Guanzhong Plain…
• 喀喇昆仑山脉Kā lǎ kūn lún Shān màiKarakorum mountain range in west Xinjiang
• 褶皱山脉zhě zhòu shān màifold mountain range (geology)

Where 山脉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chà–shǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shān mài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.