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岩

See also: 巖, 礹, 巗, 碞, 嵒, and 嵓
岩 U+5CA9, 岩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CA9
← 岨
[U+5CA8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 岪 →
[U+5CAA]

Translingual

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Han character

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岩 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 山一口 (UMR), four-corner 22601, composition ⿱山石)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 309, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7985
  • Dae Jaweon: page 609, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 766, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5CA9

Chinese

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trad. 岩/嵒*/巗*/巖
simp. 岩
alternative forms 嵓

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 岩
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 山 (“hill”) + 石 (“rock”).

Originally written as 巖 – phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋraːm) : semantic 山 (“hill”) + phonetic 嚴 (OC *ŋam). The variant form 岩 first appeared in the clerical script in the Han dynasty era.

Etymology

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Cognate with 嚴 (OC *ŋam, “majestic; stern; grave”) and 儼 (OC *ŋamʔ, “dignified; majestic”). See 嚴 for more.

癌 (ái, “cancer”) is a derivative of 岩.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 岩
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 銜 (149)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 五銜切
Baxter ngaem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋˠam/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋᵚam/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋam/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋaɨm/
Li
Rong 		/ŋam/
Wang
Li 		/ŋam/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ŋam/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ngaam4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 岩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngæm ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ŋ]ˁr[a]m/ (< uvular?)
English rocky, lofty

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 岩
Reading # 1/1
No. 3684
Phonetic
component 		敢
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		巖
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋraːm/

Definitions

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岩

  1. cliff
  2. rock; stone; -ite
  3. mountain peak
  4. cave
  5. (obsolete) tall; steep
  6. (obsolete) precipitous and strategically located

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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岩

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: げん (gen)
  • Kan-on: がん (gan, Jōyō)
  • Kun: いわ (iwa, 岩, Jōyō)←いは (ifa, 岩, historical)

Compounds

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Compounds

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
岩
いわ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
巌
磐

/ipa/ → /ifa/ → /iwa/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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岩(いわ) • (iwa) ←いは (ifa)?

  1. rock
    • 1999 July 22, “岩(がん)窟(くつ)魔(ま)人(じん)オーガ・ロック [Cave Jinn Ogre Rock]”, in Vol.4, Konami:
      体(からだ)が岩(いわ)のため守(しゅ)備(び)は高(たか)い。太(ふと)い腕(うで)のひと振(ふ)りに注(ちゅう)意(い)。
      Karada ga iwa no tame shubi wa takai. Futoi ude no hitofuri ni chūi.
      Its defence is strong thanks to its rock body. Watch out for a swing of its massive arms.
Derived terms
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Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
岩
がん
Grade: 2
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 岩 (MC ngaem).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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岩(がん) • (gan) 

  1. rock

References

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  1. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3590:
    , text here
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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岩 (eum 암 (am))

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Miyako

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Kanji

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岩

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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From Proto-Ryukyuan *piri (compare 平良 (Pïsara, “Hirara”) < *pirara), from Proto-Japonic *piri (possibly related to *pira (“slope”)[1]).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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岩(ぴぃし) (psïshi) 

  1. rock

References

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  1. ^ Pellard, Thomas. "A (more) comparative approach to some Japanese etymologies." Studies in Japanese and Korean historical and theoretical linguistics and beyond (2017): 55-64.

Vietnamese

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Han character

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岩: Hán Nôm readings: nham, nhàm, nhem

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