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嵩山

Sōng Shān

2-character word

What 嵩山 means

1. Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains {五岳|Wǔ yuè}

The characters in 嵩山

• 嵩sōng(literary) (of mountains) lofty
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

Sounds the same

Read Sōng Shān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 松山Songshan or Sungshan District of Taipei City 台北市; Matsuyama, city in Japan

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