岡
gāng

ridge or crest of hill

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

Components

山
山 Meaning component
网
网 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 网 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

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 Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangklaːŋ
Unicodegɑng

說文解字

《說文》：“岡，山骨也。从山，网聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)