岳

Meaning

岳 centers on a tall, prominent mountain peak: a high point or summit. The meaning extends naturally to any peak or pointed mountain.

• 岳たけ

  (high) mountain; Mount; Mt.

• 山岳さんがく
  N1

  mountain chain; mountains

• 岳人がくじん

  alpinist; mountaineer

• 八ヶ岳美術館やつがたけびじゅつかん

  Yatsugatake Museum of Art

• 山岳会さんがくかい

  mountaineering club; climbing club

• 山岳信仰さんがくしんこう

  religion that worships mountains as sacred (e.g. Shugendō); mountain worship

• 山岳地さんがくち

  mountain land; mountains

• 山岳地帯さんがくちたい

  mountain district

• 山岳標準時さんがくひょうじゅんじ

  Mountain Standard Time; MST

• 山岳病さんがくびょう

  altitude sickness

• 山岳賞さんがくしょう

  King of the Mountains (cycling, esp. Tour de France)

• 山岳部さんがくぶ

  mountaineering club

• 山岳部時間さんがくぶじかん

  Mountain Time (US time zone)

• 山岳部標準時さんがくぶひょうじゅんじ

  Mountain Standard Time; MST

• 山岳重畳さんがくちょうじょう

  mountains rising one above another

• 岳友会がくゆうかい

  mountaineering club

• 岳樺だけかんば

  Erman's birch (Betula ermanii); Russian rock birch

• 岳母がくぼ

  wife's mother; mother-in-law

• 岳烏だけがらす

  spotted nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)

• 岳父がくふ

  (man's) father-in-law; father of one's wife

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