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岸

岸

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

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

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
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/

Noun

岸

  1. bank, shore
    兩岸／两岸 (liǎng'àn)
  2. beach, coast
    海岸 (hǎi'àn)

References

Japanese

Kanji

岸

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. beach

Readings

Noun

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

岸 ‎(hiragana きし, romaji kishi)

  1. bank, coast, shore

Proper noun

岸 ‎(hiragana きし, romaji Kishi)

  1. A surname​.

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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