Chinese Character Wiki

岳

yuè

mountain peak

A mountain 山 range surrounded by hills 丘

Components
丘 meaning component

丘  Meaning component

qiū

  

hill

山 meaning component

山  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

Evolution

岳 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
岳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
岳 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
岳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

岳  

yuè

mountain peak; surname; wife's parents and paternal uncles

岳  

Yuè

surname Yue

岳 (嶽) 

yuè

high mountain; highest peak of a mountain ridge

Most common words with 岳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

岳父

wife's father, father-in-law

岳

high mountain

岳母

wife's mother, mother-in-law

岳阳

Yueyang prefecture-level city in Hunan

岳飞

Yue Fei (1103-1142), Song dynasty patriot and general

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]ˤrok

ngaewk

yuè

mountain, peak


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9862% of movies

2823rd most common character in movies

1844th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5CB3

Shuowen

“嶽，東岱、南靃、西華、北恒、中泰室，王者之所以巡狩所至。从山，獄聲。岳，古文象高形。”


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