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爬山

pá shān

HSK 3 2-character word

What 爬山 means

1. to go for a hike (esp. in the hills or mountains)

The characters in 爬山

• 爬páto crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

Example sentences

• 我爬山。
  I climb mountains.
• 上周末我爬山去了。
  Shàngzhōu mò wǒ páshān qù le.
  On the weekend, I climbed the mountain.
• 爬山是锻炼的好方法。
  Páshān shì duànliàn de hǎo fāngfǎ.
  It's good exercise to climb hills.
• 我们爬山的时候绳子断了。
  The rope broke when we were climbing the mountain.
• 他一定是疯了才会在冬天爬山。
  He must have been crazy to climb the mountain in winter.
• 天气差的时候去爬山是很危险的。
  Tiānqì chà de shíhou qù páshān shì hěn wēixiǎn de.
  It's dangerous to climb a mountain in bad weather.

Words starting with 爬山

• 爬山虎pá shān hǔBoston ivy or Japanese creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• 爬山涉水pá shān shè shuǐto climb mountains and wade rivers (idiom); fig. to make a long and difficult journey