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岳

岳

See also: 嶽

Translingual

Han character

岳 (radical 46 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人一山 (OMU), four-corner 72772, composition ⿱丘山)

  1. mountain peak
  2. used as a surname

Related terms

References

  • KangXi: page 309, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8001
  • Dae Jaweon: page 609, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 767, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5CB3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 岳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岳
Oracle bone script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (岳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
岳 *ŋroːɡ
捳 *ŋroːɡ

丘 + 山.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 岳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 覺 (10)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 五角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɔk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 岳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngæwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ˤrok/
English mountain, peak

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 岳
Reading # 1/1
No. 16339
Phonetic
component		 岳
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 嶽
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋroːɡ/
Notes 同嶽

Definitions

岳

  1. tall mountain
  2. parent-in-law

Japanese

Kanji

岳

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mountain peak
  2. tall mountain

Readings

Alternative forms

Etymology

Kanji in this term
岳
たけ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Kanji in this term
岳
がく
Grade: S
on'yomi

Directly cognate with 丈 ‎(take, “height”). Indirectly cognate with 高 ‎(taka, “height”), 高い ‎(takai, “high”), and 長ける ‎(takeru, “to be high”).

Noun

岳 ‎(hiragana たけ, romaji take)

  1. a tall mountain
  2. a mountain peak
    • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 612)
      Taqe. (タケ) (嶽・岳) 山脈や山の高い所, あるいは, 頂. これの本来の語はDaqe (だけ)である.

Proper noun

岳 ‎(hiragana たけし, romaji Takeshi)

  1. A male given name

岳 ‎(hiragana たける, romaji Takeru)

  1. A male given name

岳 ‎(hiragana がく, romaji Gaku)

  1. A male given name

References

Korean

Hanja

岳 • ‎(ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune-Reischauer ak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

岳 (nhạc)

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