Chinese Word of the Day

山脉
shān mài

mountain

Definitions

Chinese > English
山脉
1. Simplified form of 山脈
山脈	shān脈
1. n. (geography, collective) mountain range
English > Chinese
mountain
1. 名词. 山
Components
山	shān
1. mountain; hill
登山 - to climb a mountain
2. hill-shaped object
冰山 - iceberg
3. bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
4. gable
5. (Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin, Pinghua) tomb; grave
6. . Shan
脉
1. Simplified form of 脈
脈	脈
1. (TCM) blood vessels; veins and arteries
2. (TCM) pulse
3. vein of a leaf
4. something linking up to form a blood vessel-like network, such as mountain ranges