steep

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

区 sound component

  Sound component

  

area

Evolution

岖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
岖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
岖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
岖 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
岖 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

steep, sheer; rugged, rough; rugged

Most common words with 岖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

崎岖

rugged

rugged

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4065th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+5C96


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