See also:
U+5DCC, 巌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DCC

[U+5DCB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5DCD]

Translingual

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Japanese 巌/
Simplified
Traditional /

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 46, +17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 山火一大 (UFMK), composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 322, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8624
  • Dae Jaweon: page 622, character 42
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 806, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5DCC

Chinese

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“cliff; rock; stone; -ite; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of , which is in turn a variant form of ).

Japanese

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
いわお
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

/ipa po//ifafo//iwawo//iwao/

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

Originally a compound of (ipa → iwa, boulder; crag) +‎ (po → ho, something tall and prominent, cognate with (ho, ear of grain), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).[2][3]

The character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from .

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(いわお) (iwaoいはほ (ifafo)?

  1. a tall and large rock, crag, or boulder

Proper noun

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(いわお) (Iwaoいはほ (Ifafo)?

  1. a male given name

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
いわ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

/ipa//ifa//iwa/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.[6]

For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
いわ2
[noun] rock
Alternative spelling
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
がん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaem).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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(がん) (gan

  1. (only found in compounds) a rock, crag, or boulder
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 19, poem 4231:
    , text here
  2. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3590:
    , text here