Wiktionary

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]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: 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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 岩
alternative forms 巖
巗
嵒
嵓

Glyph originEdit

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): 山 (“hill”) + 石 (“rock”).

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

Etymology 1Edit

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.

PronunciationEdit

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋˠam/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋᵚam/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋam/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋaɨm/
Li
Rong 		/ŋam/
Wang
Li 		/ŋam/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋam/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yán
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/

DefinitionsEdit

岩

  1. cliff
  2. rock, stone
  3. mountain peak
  4. cave
  5. † tall

Etymology 2Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 岩 – see 巖 (“dangerous and important; cliff, precipice; etc.”).
(This character, 岩, is the simplified and variant form of 巖.)
Notes:

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 岩

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

岩

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term
岩
いわ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

/ipa/ → /ifa/ → /iwa/

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

PronunciationEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

岩(いわ) • (iwa)  (historical kana いは)

  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 defense is strong thanks to its rock body. Watch out for a swing of its massive arms.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms

Etymology 2Edit

Kanji in this term
岩
がん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 岩 (MC ŋˠam).

PronunciationEdit

AffixEdit

岩(がん) • (gan) 

  1. rock

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 15, poem 3590), text here
  2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. ^ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

岩 • (am) (hangeul 암)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

岩 (nham, nhàm, nhem)

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