| 巖 | |||
| cliff, precipice; cave, grotto | |||
| Radical | 山 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 20 | Total Strokes | 23 |
| Mandarin reading | yán | Cantonese reading | ngaam4 |
| Japanese on reading | gan gen | Japanese kun reading | kewashii iwao iwa |
| Korean reading | am em | Vietnamese reading | nham |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 岩 | ||
| 巖 | [ yán ] variant of 岩[yan2] |
| 巖層 | [ yán céng ] variant of 岩層|岩层[yan2 ceng2], rock strata |
| 巖床 | [ yán chuáng ] bedrock |
| 巖畫 | [ yán huà ] rock painting, picture or writing carved on rocks |
| ⇒ 層巖 | [ céng yán ] stratified rock, flagstone |
| ⇒ 灰巖殘丘 | [ huī yán cán qiū ] mogote (steep-sided pointed hill in karst landform) |
| ⇒ 非層巖 | [ feī céng yán ] unstratified rock |
| ⇒ 鹼性巖 | [ jiǎn xìng yán ] basic rock, mafic rock (with less silicon and more magnesium, iron etc) |