yuè
mountain peak
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 獄 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 嶽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
wife's father, father-in-law | ||
high mountain | ||
wife's mother, mother-in-law | ||
Yueyang prefecture-level city in Hunan | ||
Yue Fei (1103-1142), Song dynasty patriot and general |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]ˤrok | ngaewk | yuè | mountain, peak |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9862% of movies
2823rd most common character in movies
1844th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5DBD |
Shuowen | “嶽，東岱、南靃、西華、北恒、中泰室，王者之所以巡狩所至。从山，獄聲。岳，古文象高形。” |
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