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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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岩
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yán
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ ngæm ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁrm/ (< uvular?)
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| English
|
rocky, lofty
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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巉
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岩
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| Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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| No.
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1233
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3684
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Phonetic
component
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毚
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敢
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Rime
group
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談
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談
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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巉
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巖
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Old
Chinese
|
/*zraːm/
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/*ŋraːm/
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Noun
巉岩
- (literary) precipitous rock
Adjective
巉岩
- (literary) precipitous; steep
- Alternative form of 巉巖／巉岩 (chányán, “powerful and distinctive in poetic style”)
Synonyms
- 壁立 (bìlì) (chiefly of a mountain peak, cliff, etc.)
- 岢峨 (kě'é) (literary, of a mountain, high and steep)
- 岢峻 (kějùn) (literary, of a mountain, high and steep)
- 峭 (qiào) (in compounds only)
- 峻峭 (jùnqiào) (of a mountain, high and steep)
- 崒 (zú) (literary)
- 崎 (qí) (literary or Min Nan)
- 嶔崟／嵚崟 (qīnyín) (literary, dangerously steep)
- 嶜崟 (dangerously steep)
- 巀嶭 (of mountains, high, lofty, and steep)
- 巉峻 (chánjùn) (literary)
- 巉巉 (chánchán) (literary)
- 筆陡／笔陡 (bǐdǒu)
- 陡 (dǒu)
- 陡峭 (dǒuqiào)
- 陡直 (dǒuzhí)
- 險峻／险峻 (xiǎnjùn) (dangerously steep)
- 高峻 (gāojùn) (of a mountain, high and steep)