九嶷山

Jiǔyíshān

proper noun

Meanings

1 the Jiuyi Mountains in Ningyuan, southern Hunan, where the sage-king Shun is said to be buried

Characters

Yi (mountain name)

Examples

HSK 6

九嶷山的九座山峰长得很像，让人分不清，所以也写作九疑山。

Jiǔyíshān de jiǔ zuò shānfēng zhǎng de hěn xiàng, ràng rén fēnbuqīng, suǒyǐ yě xiězuò Jiǔyíshān.

The nine peaks of the Jiuyi Mountains look so alike that people can't tell them apart, so the name was also written with the character for 'doubt'.

HSK 7-9

传说舜帝就葬在九嶷山。

Chuánshuō Shùndì jiù zàng zài Jiǔyíshān.

Legend says Emperor Shun is buried in the Jiuyi Mountains.

Tips

culture

Mao Zedong's poem 'Reply to a Friend' (1961) opens 九嶷山上白云飞 'white clouds fly over the Jiuyi Mountains'. It recalls Shun's two wives, whose tears for him are said to have spotted the bamboo of Hunan, the legend behind 湘妃竹.

mistakes

嶷 is read yí in this name. In the rare word for a clever child it is nì.

Stroke Order

九 jiǔ

嶷 Yí

山 shān