Kana: やま

mountain

Example sentence

山の空気はきれいです。

やまのくうきはきれいです。

The mountain air is clean.

What 山 means

(やま) is a Japanese word meaning “mountain”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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