山 shān
“mountain, hill, peak”
On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese saan1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.
“mountain, hill, peak”
On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese saan1. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.
Transliterates syllable 1 of xe·non: xenon → xiān.
The reading drifted: the component is read shān, the element xiān.