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 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
For pronunciation and definitions of 巌 – see 巖 (“dangerous and important”).
(This character 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]

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

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
巌
がん
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
巖 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 巖 (MC ngaem).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɡã̠ɴ]

Affix

巌(がん) • (gan) 

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

References
  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. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  6. c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3590:
    , text here
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