Taxonomy of meanings for 岩 / 巖:　　

  • 巖 yán (OC: ŋɡraam MC: ŋɯam) 五銜切 平 廣韻：【峯也險也峻廊也五銜切三 】

    Additional information about 岩

    說文解字:

      Criteria
    • TUMOUR

      1. The general word for any protumescence or tumour on the body is liú 瘤.

      2. Zhuì 贅 refers to any excrescence or wart.

      3. Yóu 疣 refers specifically to a wart.

      4. Yōng 癰 refers specifically to a carbuncle.

      5. Yǐng 癭 refers specifically to the enlargement of the thyroid gland, goitre.

      NB: Yān 癌／岩／嵒 is post-Han.

    • CRAGGY

      1. Xiǎn 險 (ant. píng 平 "level") refers to inaccessible precipitous and dangerous high terrain.

      2. Yán 巖 (or yán 岩 ) focusses on height and steepness in a rocky landscape.

      3. Qiào 峭 means extremely steep, and it lays an emphasis on a steepness of a mountain.

      4. Jùn 峻 emphasises the height of a mountain.

      NB: A large number of poetic words should be added here.