mountain pass
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Kokubunji, 2022.07.18
Recently I've been rebuilding a study tool for kanji that I accidentally nuked several months ago. I re-built the database and then improved on the original quiz/flash tool. Because not one person on the entire Internet signed up to use it, I've made it private again.
One of the first kanji my new tool tried to teach me was that for the expression "mountain pass".
峠
Interestingly, it's three constituent components are mountain (山), up (上), and down (下). Which is about as clear a way of depicting a mountain pass short of drawing a saddle point.