Keyword
peak
Info
FrequencyTop 1700-1800
Type
Jōyō 
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Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig1683
Old form
Readings
みね
(69%)
ほう
(28%)
ぽう
(2%)
Composed of
mountain
late winter
lush
Used in vocabulary (43 in total)
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
highest peak; highest mountain; greatest authority; most prominent person; pinnacle (e.g. of art)
striking with the back of the sword
sacred mountain
high mountain; lofty peak
mountain range
gigantic peak; kyoho grape; large purple-black slip-skin grape variety, like Concord grapes
Cape of Good Hope
clouds that stand like a mountain peak during the summer
famous mountain; beautiful mountain
the highest peak
beautiful mountain; magnificent mountain
rim of a volcano (esp. Mt. Fuji); wrestling ring; dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position
steep peak; steep ridge; high rugged mountain
rim of a volcano (esp. Mt. Fuji); wrestling ring; dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position
two-humped; two-peaked; bimodal
along the ridges
summit of a peak
(the many peaks of a) mountain range
majestic mountain
unclimbed mountain
Mount Fuji; Mt. Fuji
rim of a volcano (esp. Mt. Fuji); wrestling ring; dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position
succession of peaks
high, steep peak
thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect)
unclimbed mountain
Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)
two-humped camel; Bactrian camel
Arabian camel; dromedary; one-hump camel
garden maple; komine maple; acer micranthum
multimodal
multimodality; multimodal
Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica)
Leontopodium hayachinense (species of plant related to Edelweiss)
Examples (3 in total)
Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, is 3,776 meters high.
The peak rises above the clouds.
Mt. Everest is the highest peak in the world.