shān pō
hillside; mountain slope
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我们在山坡上露营。
Wǒmen zài shānpō shàng lùyíng.
We camped on the hillside.
山坡上长满了野花。
Shānpō shàng zhǎngmǎnle yěhuā.
The hillside was covered with wildflowers.
山坡上有一座寺庙。
Shānpō shàng yǒuyīzuò sìmiào.
There is a temple on the hillside.
山谷 (shān gǔ)
valley
山脚 (shān jiǎo)
foot of a mountain
The Chinese word 山坡 (shānpō) for "hillside" is composed of two characters: 山 (shān), meaning "mountain", and 坡 (pō), meaning "slope". The character 山 is a pictograph depicting a mountain with three peaks, while the character 坡 is a phonetic loan character, borrowing its sound from the word 頗 (pō), which means "inclined" or "sloping". The combination of these two characters creates a vivid and descriptive term for a hillside, capturing both its mountainous nature and its sloping terrain.
