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峰

See also: 峯
峰 U+5CF0, 峰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CF0
← 峯
[U+5CEF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 峱 →
[U+5CF1]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

峰 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 山竹水十 (UHEJ), four-corner 27754, composition ⿰山夆)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 311, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8094
  • Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 775, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+5CF0

Chinese edit

trad. 峰/峯
simp. 峰
2nd round simp. 夆

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰoŋ) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • hong - literary;
  • pang - vernacular.
Rime
Character 峰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 敷容切
Baxter phjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰuawŋ/
Li
Rong 		/pʰioŋ/
Wang
Li 		/pʰĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pʰi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fung1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 峰
Reading # 1/1
No. 3225
Phonetic
component 		丰
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		峯
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰoŋ/
Notes 峯字注或體

Definitions edit

峰

  1. peak; summit
  2. hump (of a camel)
  3. Classifier for camels.

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

峰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
峰
お
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
丘

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

峰(お) • (o) ←を (wo)?

  1. (obsolete) a small place in the mountain
  2. (obsolete) hill, hilltop
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 19, poem 4151:
      , text here
      今日(けふ)之(の)為(ため)等(と)思(おもひ)標(しめ)之(し)足(あし)引(ひき)乃(の)峯(をの)上(へ)之(の)櫻(さくら)如此(かく)開(さき)尓家里(にけり) [Man'yōgana]
      今(け)日(ふ)のためと思(おも)ひて標(しめ)しあしひきの峰(を)の上(へ)の桜(さくら)かく咲(さ)きにけり [Modern spelling]
      kyō no tame to omoite shimeshi ashihiki no onoe no sakura kaku saki ni keri
      For the sake of today's feast I thought and put up a sign. The cherry of the foot-dragging hill-tops has come to blossom thus.[1]
  3. (obsolete) peak, ridge
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
峰
ね
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
峯
嶺

From Old Japanese. Used mainly in compounds.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

峰(ね) • (ne) 

  1. summit of a mountain, peak
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3515:
      , text here
      阿我於毛乃(あがおもの)和須礼牟之太波(わすれむしだは)久尓波布利(くにはふり)祢(ね)尓多都久毛乎(にたつくもを)見都追之努波西(みつつしのはせ) [Man'yōgana]
      我(あ)が面(おも)の忘(わす)れむしだは国(くに)はふり嶺(ね)に立(た)つ雲(くも)を見(み)つつ偲(しの)はせ [Modern spelling]
      aga omo no wasuremu shida wa kuni wa furi ne ni tatsukumo o mitsutsu shinowase
      The moment you might forget my face, seeing the clouds overflowing the country and rising on the peaks, think of me![3]

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
峰
みね
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
峯
嶺

From 御(み) (mi, honorific prefix) + 峰(ね) (ne, “peak”),[2] in reference to the 神 (kami, “god or spirit”) at the top of a mountain. Now the standard spelling for a peak.

Compare 道 (michi, “road”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

峰(みね) • (mine) 

  1. peak, ridge
    • 912, Kokin Wakashū, poem 365 (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 16)
      立(た)ち別(わか)れいなばの山(やま)の峰(みね)に生(お)ふるまつとし聞(き)かば今(いま)帰(かへ)り来(こ)む
      tachi-wakare Inaba-no-yama no mine ni ouru matsu to shi kikaba ima kaeri-kon
      Even if I depart and go to Inaba Mountain, on whose peak grow pines, if I hear you pine for me, I will return straightway to you.[4]
    • 912, Kokin Wakashū, poem 776 (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 13)
      筑(つく)波(ば)嶺(ね)の峰(みね)より落(お)つるみなの川(がは)恋(こひ)ぞ積(つ)もりて淵(ふち)となりぬる
      Tsukuba-ne no mine yori otsuru Minano-gawa koi zo tsumorite fuchi to nari nuru
      Falling from the ridge of high Tsukuba, the Minano River at last gathers itself, like my love, into a deep, still pool.[5]
  2. (by extension) top or summit of something
  3. back of a blade

Proper noun edit

峰(みね) • (Mine) 

  1. A place name
  2. a female given name
  3. a surname

References edit

  1. ^ Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1963) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated Book XIX, Brill Archive, page 14
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1958) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated Book XX, Brill Archive, page 74
  4. ^ Joshua S. Mostow (1996) Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 190
  5. ^ Kenneth Rexroth (1964) One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 103

Korean edit

Hanja edit

峰 • (bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune–Reischauer pong)

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Compounds edit

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

峰: Hán Nôm readings: phong, phưng, phơng

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