岡

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See also: 𫝍 and 冈
岡 U+5CA1, 岡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CA1
← 岠
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 岢 →

Translingual

Han character

岡 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月廿山 (BTU), four-corner 77220, composition ⿵𦉰山)

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 308, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7962
  • Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 100, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5CA1

Chinese

trad. 岡
simp. 冈*
alternative forms 崗／岗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (岡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
岡 *klaːŋ
崗 *klaːŋ
剛 *klaːŋ
掆 *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
鋼 *klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
綱 *klaːŋ
犅 *klaːŋ
堈 *klaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klaːŋ) : phonetic 网 (OC *mlaŋʔ) + semantic 山 (“mountain”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gaŋ (“hill, ridge, mountain”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007), cognate with Tibetan སྒང (sgang, “ridge; mound”), Burmese ခင် (hkang, “ridge”), Burmese အခေါင် (a.hkaung, “summit”), Lahu qhɔ³³ (“mountain”), Sulung gɹaŋ³³ (“mountain”), Proto-Tamangic *ᴬgaŋ ("hill, mountain").

STEDT also proposes cognacy with 京 (OC *kraŋ, “artificial mound, capital”) and 鯨 (OC *ɡraŋ, “whale”).

Pronunciation

Note: geng1 - used in 黃岡.
Rime
Character 岡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古郎切
Baxter kang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kɑŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gong1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 岡
Reading # 1/1
No. 3711
Phonetic
component 		岡
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		岡
Old
Chinese 		/*klaːŋ/
Notes 說文從山網聲

Definitions

岡

  1. ridge or crest of a mountain
  2. mountain; hill

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

岡

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. hill

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
岡
おか
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 岡 – see the following entry.
【おか】
hill
a surname
land, ground (as opposed to the sea or other bodies of water)
the bathing area next to an お風呂 (ofuro, “traditional Japanese soaking tub”), often raised relative to the tub basin
the raised portion of a 硯 (suzuri, “inkstone”) where one grinds the stick of India ink (as opposed to the 池 (ike, literally “pond”) or 海 (umi, literally “sea”), the small depressed basin area where one pours in the water)
Alternative spellings
丘, 陸
(This term, 岡, is an alternative spelling (only in proper nouns) of the above term.)

Korean

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 岡 (MC kang). Recorded as Middle Korean 崗/가ᇰ (kang) (Yale: kang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

岡 (eumhun 산등성이 강 (sandeungseong'i gang))

  1. Hanja form? of 강 (“hill”).

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
  • Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 1.

Vietnamese

Han character

岡: Hán Nôm readings: cương

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