岩 石

yánshí

“Rock” in Chinese is 岩石 (yánshí).

Meaning

(geology) rock

Example

浪拍在岩石上。

The waves crashed against the rocks.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

yánHSK 7-98 strokescliff shíHSK 35 strokesabbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei

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Not to be confused with: 掩饰 (yǎnshì, to cover up) · 演示 (yǎnshì, to demonstrate)