Jisho

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20 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
Variants:
rock, crag, boulder
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1986 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 岩壁 【ガンペキ】 wall of rock, rock cliff, rock face
  • 巌巌とした 【ガンガントシタ】 craggy, steep (as of a mountain)
  • 奇岩 【キガン】 strangely shaped large rock, large rock of unusual shape
  • 危岩 【キガン】 steep, towering rock

Kun reading compounds

  • 岩 【いわ】 rock, boulder, crag
  • 巌 【いわお】 huge rock, massive boulder
  • 巌 【いわお】 huge rock, massive boulder

Readings

Japanese names:
よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
am

Spanish

  • peñasco
  • roca grande
  • roca

Portuguese

French

1442 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1918 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2936 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2059 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3037 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1547 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2117 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
8624P Morohashi
2386 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1521 New Nelson (John Haig)
2978 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
3o17.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-17 SKIP code
3-8-12 SKIP code
2224.8 Four corner code
1-20-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5dcc Unicode hex code