岸
àn HSK5

shore, bank

Phonosemantic compound. 屵 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound.

Components

屵
屵 Meaning component
yǎn, è tall mountain
干
干 Sound component
gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

Remnant (1)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnganH[ŋ]ˤa[r]-s bank of a river

說文解字

《說文》:“岸,水厓而高者。从屵,干聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica