巉

巉 U+5DC9, 巉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DC9 ← 巈 [U+5DC8] CJK Unified Ideographs 巊 → [U+5DCA]

巉 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 山弓口戈 (UNRI), four-corner 2771₆, composition ⿰山毚)

1. steep, rugged, jagged, precipitous

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 322, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8618
• Dae Jaweon: page 622, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 806, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5DC9

trad.		巉
simp. #		巉

巉

1. precipitous; steep
2. jagged; towering; overlapping

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00908

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rugged, steep, jagged (as of a mountain range)

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)^{←ぜむ (zemu, historical)}
• Kan-on: さん (san)^{←さむ (samu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ざん (zan)

Kanji in this term
巉
ざん Hyōgai
kan'yōon

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巉 (MC dzraem|dzraemX).

• IPA^(key): [d͡zã̠ɴ]

巉(ざん) • (zan) 

1. (rare) rugged, steep, jagged (as of a mountain range)

• 巉巌(ざんがん) (zangan, “jagged and steep”, said of a mountain)

  Listed as a -na adjective,^[1] but only observed in use as an adverb using particle に (ni).

• 巉岸(ざんがん) (zangan, “a jagged and steep bank or shore”)

巉 (eum 참 (cham))

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