漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
崖: cliff, bluff
Also: precipice
N1 (our estimate)11 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 山mountain(meaning)
- 厓(form)
山 carries the meaning · 厓 is drawn in
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ガイgai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 断崖だんがいprecipice; cliff; bluff
- 懸崖けんがいoverhanging cliff
がけgake · kun'yomi · on its own
- 崖がけcliff; precipice
Also read ゲ, ギ, きし, はて, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand tall and look at the horizon! Three peaks reach for the clouds in perfect harmony.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
厓
Also built on 厓
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side崖 cliff · 山
vs涯 horizon · 氵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yá
Same form: 崖 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 崖 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 崖 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yá 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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