岗巴
Gǎng​bā

Gamba County

岗 gǎng, gāng post Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 冈 represents the sound. Simplified form of 崗.

Components

山
山 Meaning component
shān mountain
冈
冈 Sound component
gāng ridge or crest of hill

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

巴 ba, bā to wish

Depicts a person grabbing something with their hand. Original form of 把. In modern Chinese this character is usually used only for its sound.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 18 verified)

把吧爸爬疤芭靶琶笆耙粑杷鲃钯岜鈀䰾皅

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpaepˤra snake
paepˤra [place name]

說文解字

《說文》：“巴，蟲也。或曰食象蛇。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.1637
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

崗 gǎng, gāng post Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 岡 represents the sound.

Components

山
山 Meaning component
shān mountain
岡
岡 Sound component
gāng ridge or crest of hill

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangklaːŋ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang