yán

cliff

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

品 sound component

  Sound component

pǐn

  

product

Evolution

嵒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嵒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yán

cliff; soar

() 

yán

variant of |[yán]

Most common words with 嵒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

cliff

岩石

rock

岩浆

lava

熔岩

lava

花岗岩

granite

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.4301% of movies

1962nd most common character in movies

1423rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5D52

Shuowen

“嵒,山巖也。从山、品。”


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