嶺

Meaning

嶺 centers on the highest point of a mountain: a peak or summit. It is used for literal mountain tops and can extend to figurative high points.

• 高嶺たかね

  high peak

• 分水嶺ぶんすいれい

  watershed; divide

• 銀嶺ぎんれい

  silvery, snow-capped mountain

• 山嶺さんれい

  mountaintop; summit

• 中央海嶺ちゅうおうかいれい

  mid-ocean ridge; midocean ridge

• 函嶺かんれい

  the Hakone Mountains

• 北嶺ほくれい

  Mount Hiei

• 峻嶺しゅんれい

  steep peak; steep ridge; high rugged mountain

• 嶺上れいじょう

  mountain top; summit

• 嶺上牌リンシャンパイ

  replacement tile drawn after declaring a kong

• 嶺上開花リンシャンカイホウ

  winning hand formed by drawing a replacement tile after declaring a kong

• 嶺颪ねおろし

  wind coming from the top of a mountain

• 海嶺かいれい

  (submarine) ridge

• 雪嶺せつれい

  snow-capped peak

• 青嶺あおね

  lush mountain; green mountain

• 高嶺の花たかねのはな

  prize beyond one's reach; unattainable object; woman who is out of one's league; flower on a high peak

• 高嶺七竈たかねななかまど

  Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

• 高嶺桜たかねざくら

  Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica)

• 高嶺苦菜たかねにがな

  Ixeris dentata var. alpicola (mountain flower in the dandelion family)

• 高嶺鷺草たかねさぎそう

  Platanthera maximowicziana (species of orchid)

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