See also:
U+5DCC, 巌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DCC

[U+5DCB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5DCD]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 46, +17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 山火一大 (UFMK), composition)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 322, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8624
  • Dae Jaweon: page 622, character 42
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 806, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5DCC

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“cliff; rock, stone; etc.”).
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
いわお
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/ipa po//ifafo//iwawo//iwao/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.[1]

Originally a compound of (ipa → iwa, boulder; crag) + (po → ho, something tall and prominent, cognate with (ho, ear of grain), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).[2][3]

The character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from .

Pronunciation

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana いわお, rōmaji iwao, historical hiragana いはほ)

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

Proper noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana いわお, rōmaji Iwao, historical hiragana いはほ)

  1. A male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
いわ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/ipa//ifa//iwa/

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

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana いわ, rōmaji iwa, historical hiragana いは)

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

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
がん
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC ŋˠam).

Pronunciation

Affix

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana がん, rōmaji 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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