圸

圸 U+5738, 圸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5738 ← 圷 [U+5737] CJK Unified Ideographs 圹 → [U+5739]

Translingual

Han character

圸 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土山 (GU) or 難土山 (XGU), composition ⿰土山)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 224, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 419, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5738

Chinese

simp. and trad.		圸

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 圸.

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 山 (shān).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shan
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Yale: shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan¹
    • Yale: sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

圸

1. Used in borrowings of Japanese words.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 85

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Kanji

圸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cliff
2. Only used in placenames in Yamagata Prefecture.

Mamanoue(圸の上), a placename in Yamagata Prefecture.

Readings

• Kun: やま (yama, 圸); まま (mama, 圸)

Noun

圸(まま) • (mama) 

1. cliff