岑

See also: 岺

岑	U+5C91, 岑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C91

← 岐
[U+5C90]

CJK Unified Ideographs

岒 →
[U+5C92]

Translingual

Han character

岑 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 山人戈弓 (UOIN), four-corner 2220₇, composition ⿱山今)

Derived characters

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 308, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7937
Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 763, character 23
Unihan data for U+5C91

Chinese

trad.		岑
simp. ^#		岑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
貪	*kʰl'uːm
嗿	*l̥ʰuːmʔ
僋	l̥ʰuːms, luːms
酓	qʰɯːm, qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
馠	*qʰɯːm
谽	*qʰɯːm
唅	qʰɯːm, ɡɯːms
含	*ɡɯːm
肣	ɡɯːm, ɡɯːmʔ
頷	ɡɯːm, ɡɯːmʔ
筨	*ɡɯːm
梒	*ɡɯːm
鋡	*ɡɯːm
莟	ɡɯːmʔ, ɡɯːms
琀	*ɡɯːms
浛	*ɡɯːms
盦	qɯːm, qaːb
韽	qɯːm, qrɯːms
玪	*krɯːm
妗	qʰrɯːm, kʰjam, qʰlɯːm, ɡrɯms
欦	qʰrɯːmʔ, qʰram, kʰlam, kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
黔	ɡram, ɡrɯm
鈐	*ɡram
鳹	*ɡram
雂	ɡram, ɡrɯm
念	*nɯːms
梣	sɡɯm, sɡrɯm
枔	*sɢrɯm
岑	*sɡrɯm
笒	sɡrɯm, ɡrɯms
涔	*sɡrɯm
侺	*ɡjɯms
今	*krɯm
黅	*krɯm
衿	*krɯm
衾	*kʰrɯm
坅	*kʰrɯmʔ
搇	*kʰrɯms
琴	*ɡrɯm
禽	*ɡrɯm
芩	*ɡrɯm
庈	*ɡrɯm
耹	*ɡrɯm
靲	*ɡrɯm
擒	*ɡrɯm
檎	*ɡrɯm
紟	*ɡrɯms
吟	ŋɡrɯm, ŋɡrɯms
訡	*ŋɡrɯm
廞	qʰrɯm, qʰrɯmʔ
陰	*qrɯm
霠
飲	qrɯmʔ, qrɯms
蔭	*qrɯms
廕	*qrɯms
矜	ɡrɯn, ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cén (cen²)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄣˊ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): sam⁴

(Taishan, Wiktionary): sem³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhèm
Eastern Min (BUC): kièng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): gîm / khîm / chîm / chhîm

(Teochew, Peng'im): ngim⁵ / cam⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cén
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cén
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻên²
  - Yale: tsén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsern
  - Palladius: цэнь (cɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sam⁴
  - Yale: sàhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sem⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: sem³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sem²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhèm
  - Hakka Romanization System: cem^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cem²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰem¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: kièng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰieŋ⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gîm
  - Tâi-lô: gîm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: giim
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ɡim²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡim²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡim¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khîm
  - Tâi-lô: khîm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qiim
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰim²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîm
  - Tâi-lô: tsîm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciim
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sim¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /t͡sim²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhîm
  - Tâi-lô: tshîm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiim
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰim¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /t͡sʰim²⁴/

Note:

gîm/khîm - vernacular;
chîm/chhîm - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: ngim⁵ / cam⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngîm / tshâm
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋim⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰam⁵⁵/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 岑
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡sʰən³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡sʰən²⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡sʰən⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʰẽ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡sʰə̃⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰən⁴²/
	Xi'an	/t͡sʰẽ²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡sʰə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡sʰəŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰə̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡sʰɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡sʰən²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡sʰən³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰen²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡sʰə̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰən²⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡sʰən⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡sʰəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡sʰəŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/zəŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/zən¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zen²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zaŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰiʌ̃⁴⁴/
Hui	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡sən¹³/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/d͡zən¹²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰəm¹¹/
Hakka	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sɐm²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰɐm²¹/
	Hong Kong	/sɐm²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/t͡sʰim³⁵/ /gim³⁵/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡sɛiŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/keiŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ŋim⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ŋim³¹/

Middle Chinese: dzrim

Rime
Character	岑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	鋤針切
Baxter	dzrim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐjim/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒjəm/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cam⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sɡrɯm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	岑
Reading #	1/1
No.	6594
Phonetic component	今
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	岑
Old Chinese	/*sɡrɯm/

Definitions

岑

(literary) small but tall hill
- 託九成之孤岑兮，臨萬仞之石磎。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  托九成之孤岑兮，临万仞之石磎。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: c. 2nd century CE, 馬融, 長笛賦
  Tuō jiǔ chéng zhī gū cén xī, lín wàn rèn zhī shí xī. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(obsolete) high
- 不揣其本而齊其末，方寸之木可使高於岑樓。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  不揣其本而齐其末，方寸之木可使高于岑楼。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE
  Bù chuǎi qí běn ér qí qí mò, fāng cùn zhī mù kě shǐ gāo yú cénlóu. [Pinyin]
  If you do not adjust them at their lower extremities, but only put their tops on a level, a piece of wood an inch square may be made to be higher than the pointed peak of a high building.
a surname
- 岑夫子，丹丘生，將進酒，杯莫停。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  岑夫子，丹丘生，将进酒，杯莫停。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 8th century, Li Bai, 將進酒
  Cén fūzǐ, Dānqiū shēng, jiāng jìn jiǔ, bēi mò tíng. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

岑

(Hyōgai kanji)

peak, mountaintop
used in names

Readings

On (unclassified): しん (shin)^{←しん (sin, historical)}^{←しむ (simu, ancient)}、じん (jin)^{←じん (zin, historical)}^{←じむ (zimu, ancient)}、ぎん (gin)
Kun: みね (mine, 岑)
Nanori: たかし (takashi)、たけし (takeshi)、みね (mine)

Korean

Hanja

岑 • (jam, eum) (hangeul 잠, 음, revised jam, eum, McCune–Reischauer cham, ŭm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

岑: Hán Nôm readings: sầm, sum, xờm

towering; mountainous.