hill

Components

Meaning component
shān mountain

mountain

Sound component
old

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡaːʔ

說文解字

山有草木也。从山古聲。《詩》曰:“陟彼岵兮。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica