àn

shore, bank

Phonosemantic compound. The (mountain) and (cliff) components hint at the landscape-related meaning. represents the sound.

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

厂 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

hǎnchǎng

  

cliff, (roof)

干 sound component

  Sound component

gāngàn

  

interfere

Evolution

岸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
岸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

àn

bank, shore; beach, coast; bank; shore; beach; coast; CL:|[gè]

() 

àn

variant of [àn]

Most common words with 岸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

海岸

coastal

两岸

bilateral

bank

岸边

shore

口岸

a port for external trade

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]ˤa[r]-s

nganH

àn

bank of a river


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 14.1118% of movies

1619th most common character in movies

971st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5CB8

Shuowen

“岸,水厓而高者。从屵,干聲。”


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