Chinese symbol for “landfall”

靠岸

kào àn

(of a boat) to reach the shore; to pull toward shore; close to shore; landfall

The closest CC-CEDICT match for landfall is 靠岸 (kào àn), defined as: (of a boat) to reach the shore; to pull toward shore; close to shore; landfall.

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Characters and stroke order

靠 kào

nearby; to depend on, to lean on, to trust

radical 175 ⾮ · 15 strokes

岸 àn

beach, coast, shore

radical 46 ⼭ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 靠岸.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
依靠	yī kào	to rely on; to depend on
可靠	kě kào	reliable
靠近	kào jìn	to be close to; to approach; to draw near
可靠性	kě kào xìng	reliability
靠拢 (靠攏)	kào lǒng	to draw close to
停靠	tíng kào	to call at; to stop at
两岸 (兩岸)	liǎng àn	bilateral; both shores
海岸	hǎi àn	coastal; seacoast

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.