岸

See also 㟁, 𡶜, and 崖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 屵 (“cliff”) + phonetic 干 – the edge of the land.

Han character

岸 (radical 46 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 山一一十 (UMMJ), four-corner 2224₁, composition ⿱山厈)

1. bank, shore
2. beach, coast

References

• KangXi: page 310, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8009
• Dae Jaweon: page 610, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 766, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5CB8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

岸 (jyutping ngon6, Yale ngon6)

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Japanese

Kanji

岸 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: がん (gan)
• Kun: きし (kishi)

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Korean

Hanja

岸 (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

岸 (pinyin àn (an4), Wade-Giles an⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

岸 (ngạn, ngàn, ngan)