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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

岸 (traditional 㟁, Pinyin àn (an4), Wade-Giles an⁴)

Noun

岸 (simplified, Pinyin àn)

1. bank, shore, coast

   我们沿着湖岸散步。wǒmen yánzhe hú àn sànbù.

   We walked along the shore of the lake.

   他们沿着非洲西岸航行了。 tāmen yánzhe fēizhōu xīàn àn hángxíng le

   They sailed along the west coast of Africa.

References

• "Sentences with 岸", Tatoeba. URL accessed on 2014-03-20.

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Min Nan

Hanzi

岸 (POJ gān (gan⁷), hoāⁿ (hoaⁿ⁷), TLPA gān (gan⁷), huānn (huann⁷))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

岸 (ngạn, ngàn, ngan)