巖 — Chinese character
巖
yán
cliff, precipice; cave, grotto
- Pinyin
- yán
- Radical
- 46 ⼭ (Mountain)
- Strokes
- 23
- Components
- 山 嚴
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mountain; meaning component 山; sound component 嚴
- Simplified
- 𰎠
- Japanese
- 巖 as a kanji
巖 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 4 · Great Learning 2
- Mencius 7A.2
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- The Great Learning Passage 12
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