岸

岸 U+5CB8, 岸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CB8 ← 岷 [U+5CB7] CJK Unified Ideographs 岹 → [U+5CB9]

See also: 㟁, 𡶜, and 崖

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		岸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岸
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (干) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
訐	*krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
肝	*kaːn
竿	*kaːn
干	*kaːn
奸	*kaːn
玕	*kaːn
汗	*kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
迀	*kaːn
忓	*kaːn, *ɡaːns
鳱	*kaːn
邗	*kaːn, *ɡaːn
秆	*kaːnʔ
矸	*kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
仠	*kaːnʔ
皯	*kaːnʔ
衦	*kaːnʔ
簳	*kaːnʔ
擀	*kaːnʔ
旰	*kaːns
盰	*kaːns
幹	*kaːns
杆	*kaːns
骭	*kaːns, *ɡraːns
桿	*kaːnʔ
趕	*kaːnʔ
稈	*kaːnʔ
刊	*kʰaːn
靬	*kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
衎	*kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
犴	*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
豻	*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̥ʰraːn
頇	*ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
岸	*ŋɡaːns
鼾	*qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
罕	*qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
焊	*qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
蔊	*qʰaːnʔ
虷	*ɡaːn
旱	*ɡaːnʔ
皔	*ɡaːnʔ
釬	*ɡaːns
扞	*ɡaːns
閈	*ɡaːns
馯	*ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
捍	*ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
悍	*ɡaːns
銲	*ɡaːns
垾	*ɡaːns
駻	*ɡaːns
睅	*ɡʷranʔ
娨	*ɡraːns
飦	*kan
赶	*ɡan, *ɡʷad
軒	*qʰan
蓒	*qʰan
酐	*qʰaːŋʔ
澣	*ɡʷaːnʔ

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): àn (an⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngon⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngan
• Min Nan (POJ): hōaⁿ / gān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: an⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ann
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀa̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngon⁶
    • Yale: ngohn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngon⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngon⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngan
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngan⁴
    • IPA: /ŋan⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hōaⁿ / gān
    • Tâi-lô: huānn / gān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hvoa, gan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huã²²/, /gan²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huã⁴¹/, /gan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huã²²/, /gan²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huã³³/, /gan³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huã³³/, /gan³³/

Note:

• hōaⁿ - vernacular;
• gān - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	岸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋanH/
Li Rong	/ŋɑnH/
Wang Li	/ŋɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	àn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤa[r]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡaːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	岸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	àn
Middle Chinese	‹ nganH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˤa[r]-s/
English	bank of a river
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	岸
Reading #	1/1
No.	3604
Phonetic component	干
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	岸
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡaːns/

Definitions

岸

1. bank, shore

   兩岸／两岸 (liǎng'àn)

2. beach, coast

   海岸 (hǎi'àn)

3. high
4. stately
5. border

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #3830”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

岸

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. beach

Readings

• Goon: がん (gan, Jōyō)
• Kan’on: がん (gan, Jōyō)
• Kun: きし (kishi, 岸, Jōyō)

Noun

Kanji in this term
岸
きし Grade: 3
kun'yomi

岸 (hiragana きし, rōmaji kishi)

1. bank, coast, shore

Proper noun

岸 (hiragana きし, rōmaji Kishi)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

岸 (ngàn, ngan, ngạn)

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