yán
cliff
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 品 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.4301% of movies
1962nd most common character in movies
1423rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5D52 |
Shuowen | “嵒,山巖也。从山、品。” |
Sources
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