Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

岡: mount, hill

Also: knoll

N1 (our estimate)8 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

冂 and 山 carry the meaning

8 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

おかoka · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 福岡ふくおかFukuoka (city, prefecture)
  • 静岡しずおかShizuoka (city, prefecture)
  • 岡おかhill; height; knoll

Also read コウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Stand tall and look at the horizon! Three peaks reach for the clouds in perfect harmony.”
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
冂

Also built on borders (冂)

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山

Also built on mountain (山)

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岡 gives its sound to

The family reading is コウ (kou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read コウ

96 kanji share this on'yomiAll 96
In ChineseSimplified 冈 · traditional, as in Japanese · gāng

Japan keeps the traditional form 岡; mainland China simplifies it to 冈.

Simplified
冈 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
岡 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin gāng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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