| 崦 | |||
| a mountain in Kansu, where there is a cave into which the sun is said to sink at night | |||
| Radical | 山 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | yān | Cantonese reading | jim1 |
| Japanese on reading | en | Japanese kun reading | |
| Korean reading | em | Vietnamese reading | |
| 崦 | [ yān ] name of a mountain in Gansu |
| 崦嵫 | [ yān zī ] (old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth |
| ⇒ 日薄崦嵫 | [ rì bó yān zī ] lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom), fig. the day is drawing to an end, the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc) |