Chinese Character Wiki
屵

yǎn

tall mountain

山 represents a mountain and 厂 represents a cliff. Both used here to convey the landscape-related meaning. Variant of 岸.

Components
山 meaning component

山  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

厂 meaning component

厂  Meaning component

hǎn, chǎng

  

cliff, (roof)

Evolution

屵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
屵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

屵  

yǎn

tall mountain

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+5C75

Shuowen

“屵，岸高也。从山、厂，厂亦聲。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.722

何琳儀《戰國古文字典：戰國文字聲系》p.978



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