背山臨水 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 背山临水 bèishānlínshuǐ ㄅㄟˋ ㄕㄢ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ with back to the mountain and facing the water (favored location) Character by character 背(bèi)the back of a body or object 山(shān)surname Shan 臨(lín)face 水(shuǐ)surname Shui A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0