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Pictogram (象形) – a cliff. It usually appears on top of the character. An exception is 彥, in which is written in the middle of the component 彣. See also 石, in which it appears as 丆. See also 厃 and the left part of 段. Unrelated to 广 and 灰.
Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of 厂 – see 廠 (“shack; shed; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of廠).
Notes:
Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.
From the stem *ŋaʔ(“to oppose; to resist”), i.e. “that which resists (the river's flow)”, with a voiceless initial (used to signify that that the noun refers to a natural object) and a general noun suffix *-n; related to 岸 (OC *ŋɡaːns, “bank; shore”), 滸 (OC *hŋaːʔ, “riverbank”) (Schuessler, 2007).
