峰

peak, mountaintop; ridge

Kanji 1799

Packed with fun quizzes and great photos, this short essay teaches you to talk about soaring peaks, successive peaks, and the tallest mountain in a range. You'll find out why people compare Mount Fuji to a lotus blossom. The essay also pays close attention to yomi issues, including an unusual pattern of phonetic changes and the oddity of an identical kun-yomi and on-yomi. 

Revision history:

Mar. 29, 2024: p. 6, 1st sidebar: Deleted a broken link.

Feb. 23, 2024:

• p. 2: Slightly improved the Mount Yatsugatake sentence translation. 
• p. 2: Deleted the statements that 岳 can mean “peak” but more often represents “high mountain." I've now said simply that it often serves as the suffix to mountain names. 
• p. 2: Revised the explanation of the legend. I can't be sure, but I suspect that Wikipedia (my source on that) changed its own wording about the legend.
• p. 5: Corrected several things about the Mount Okuhotakadake sentence.

June 22, 2021: p. 1: Deleted a stray punctuation mark.

Jan. 23, 2020:

• p. 2: Etymology Box: Replaced the old Henshall etymology with the new one.
• p. 9: Added a link to the Kanshudo games.

Feb. 18, 2014: Changed p. 6 to reflect that 峯 is the variant form of 峰, not the old form.

Jan. 18, 2013: Originally published.