巌

See also: 巖
巌 U+5DCC, 巌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DCC
← 巋
[U+5DCB]
CJK Unified Ideographs 巍 →
[U+5DCD]

Translingual

Japanese 巌/岩
Simplified 岩
Traditional 巖/岩

Han character

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

References

  • KangXi: 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

For pronunciation and definitions of 巌 – see 巖 (“dangerous and important; cliff, precipice; etc.”).
(This character, 巌, is a variant form of 巖.)

Japanese

Shinjitai

巌

Kyūjitai

巖

Kanji

巌

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 巖)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
巌
いわお
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
巖 (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 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) +‎ 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).[2][3]

The character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖.

Pronunciation

Noun

巌(いわお) • (iwao) ←いはほ (ifafo)?

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

Proper noun

巌(いわお) • (Iwao) ←いはほ (ifafo)?

  1. a male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
巌
いわ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
巖 (kyūjitai)

/ipa/ → /ifa/ → /iwa/

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

巌(いわ) • (iwa) ←いは (ifa)?

  1. Alternative spelling of 岩 a rock, crag, or boulder

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
巌
がん
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
巖 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 巖 (MC ŋˠam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡã̠ɴ]

Affix

巌(がん) • (gan) 

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

References

  1. c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 19, poem 4231), text here
  2. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  6. c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 15, poem 3590), text here
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