jí
perilous
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 及 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 岌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
imminent danger (idiom); approaching a crisis | ||
lofty peak |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.1213% of movies
3095th most common character in movies
4205th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5C8C |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“岌,山高皃。从山,及聲。” |
Sources
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