"巌" meaning in Japanese

See in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Affix

IPA: [ɡã̠ɴ] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (がん)), gan [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 巖 (MC ngaem). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=かん'}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|巖}} 巖 (MC ngaem) Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|がん}} 巌(がん) • (gan)
  1. (only found in compounds) a rock, crag, or boulder
    Sense id: en-巌-ja-affix-m408CRBc Derived forms: 巌下 (ganka) (ruby: (がん), ()) (english: the underneath of a large rock, crag, or boulder), 巌巌: rocky (gangan), craggy, sophisticated, lofty, high-minded, noble, 巌窟 (gankutsu) (ruby: (がん), (くつ)) (english: a cave in a crag), 巌桂: alternative name for 木犀 (mokusei) (ruby: (がん), (けい)) (english: sweet osmanthus, a kind of flowering bush), 巌穴 a hollow (ganketsu), small cave in a crag, 巌松 (ganshō) (ruby: (がん), (しょう)) (english: a pine tree growing out of a crag or boulder), 巌石 (ganseki) (ruby: (がん), (せき)) (english: a cluster of crag or boulder), 巌泉: a spring in (gansen) (english: water source), between crag, boulder, 巌阻 (ganso) (ruby: (がん), ()) (english: a steep road in the mountain or crag), 巌頭 (gantō) (ruby: (がん), (とう)) (english: the top of a crag or boulder), 巌洞 (gandō) (ruby: (がん), (どう)) (english: a cave in a crag), 巌扉: the door (ganpi), opening to a craggy area, the door, opening to a cave in a crag, 巌廊: literally (ganrō) (english: lofty halls), the room to either side in a palace, by extension, the imperial court
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Character

Forms: [kyūjitai]
  1. Tags: Jinmeiyō, kanji, no-gloss, shinjitai

Proper name

IPA: [iɰᵝa̠o̞] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (いわお)), Iwao [romanization], ifafo [romanization], いはほ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /ipa po/ → /ifafo/ → /iwawo/ → /iwao/ From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE. Originally a compound of 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards). The character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=いわお}} Old Japanese, {{m|ja|穂||ear of grain|tr=ho}} 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), {{compound|ja|岩|秀|pos2=cognate with <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">穂</i> (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards|sort=いわお|t1=boulder; crag|t2=something tall and prominent|tr1=ipa → iwa|tr2=po → ho}} 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards), {{l|ja|巖}} 巖, {{ja-l/helper|巖||}} 巖, {{ja-l|巖}} 巖 Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper|いわお|hhira=いはほ}} 巌(いわお) • (Iwao) ^(←いはほ (ifafo)?)
  1. a male given name Categories (topical): Japanese given names, Japanese male given names
    Sense id: en-巌-ja-name-h8YdwBAs Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese affixes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 10 0 84 6 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 16 0 79 5 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 15 0 80 6 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 17 0 75 8 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 14 0 81 5 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 14 0 81 5 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 93 7 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 93 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [iɰᵝa̠o̞] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (いわお)), iwao [romanization], ifafo [romanization], いはほ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /ipa po/ → /ifafo/ → /iwawo/ → /iwao/ From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE. Originally a compound of 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards). The character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=いわお}} Old Japanese, {{m|ja|穂||ear of grain|tr=ho}} 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), {{compound|ja|岩|秀|pos2=cognate with <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">穂</i> (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards|sort=いわお|t1=boulder; crag|t2=something tall and prominent|tr1=ipa → iwa|tr2=po → ho}} 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards), {{l|ja|巖}} 巖, {{ja-l/helper|巖||}} 巖, {{ja-l|巖}} 巖 Head templates: {{ja-noun|いわお|hhira=いはほ}} 巌(いわお) • (iwao) ^(←いはほ (ifafo)?)
  1. a tall and large rock, crag, or boulder
    Sense id: en-巌-ja-noun-GtBRFBkN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Download JSON data for 巌 meaning in Japanese (9.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巖",
      "tags": [
        "kyūjitai"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Kanji used for names",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-巌-ja-character-47DEQpj8",
      "tags": [
        "Jinmeiyō",
        "kanji",
        "no-gloss",
        "shinjitai"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "いわお"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "穂",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ear of grain",
        "tr": "ho"
      },
      "expansion": "穂 (ho, “ear of grain”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "岩",
        "3": "秀",
        "pos2": "cognate with <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">穂</i> (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards",
        "sort": "いわお",
        "t1": "boulder; crag",
        "t2": "something tall and prominent",
        "tr1": "ipa → iwa",
        "tr2": "po → ho"
      },
      "expansion": "岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖",
        "2": "",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l/helper"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "/ipa po/ → /ifafo/ → /iwawo/ → /iwao/\nFrom Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.\nOriginally a compound of 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).\nThe character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巌",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "いわお"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iwao",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いはほ",
      "roman": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "いわお",
        "hhira": "いはほ"
      },
      "expansion": "巌(いわお) • (iwao) ^(←いはほ (ifafo)?)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a tall and large rock, crag, or boulder"
      ],
      "id": "en-巌-ja-noun-GtBRFBkN",
      "links": [
        [
          "rock",
          "rock"
        ],
        [
          "crag",
          "crag"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いわお"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iɰᵝa̠o̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
    "Man'yōshū",
    "ja:新明解国語辞典"
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "いわお"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "穂",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ear of grain",
        "tr": "ho"
      },
      "expansion": "穂 (ho, “ear of grain”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "岩",
        "3": "秀",
        "pos2": "cognate with <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">穂</i> (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards",
        "sort": "いわお",
        "t1": "boulder; crag",
        "t2": "something tall and prominent",
        "tr1": "ipa → iwa",
        "tr2": "po → ho"
      },
      "expansion": "岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖",
        "2": "",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l/helper"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "/ipa po/ → /ifafo/ → /iwawo/ → /iwao/\nFrom Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.\nOriginally a compound of 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).\nThe character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巌",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "いわお"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Iwao",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いはほ",
      "roman": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper",
        "2": "いわお",
        "hhira": "いはほ"
      },
      "expansion": "巌(いわお) • (Iwao) ^(←いはほ (ifafo)?)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Japanese given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Japanese male given names",
          "parents": [
            "Male given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 0 84 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese affixes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 0 79 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 0 80 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 0 75 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 0 81 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 0 81 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a male given name"
      ],
      "id": "en-巌-ja-name-h8YdwBAs",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いわお"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iɰᵝa̠o̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
    "Man'yōshū",
    "ja:新明解国語辞典"
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ltc",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "かん'"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Chinese",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖 (MC ngaem)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Chinese 巖 (MC ngaem).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巌",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gan",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "affix",
        "2": "がん"
      },
      "expansion": "巌(がん) • (gan)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "affix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "the underneath of a large rock, crag, or boulder",
          "roman": "ganka",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "下",
              "か"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌下"
        },
        {
          "roman": "gangan",
          "word": "巌巌: rocky"
        },
        {
          "word": "craggy"
        },
        {
          "word": "sophisticated"
        },
        {
          "word": "lofty"
        },
        {
          "word": "high-minded"
        },
        {
          "word": "noble"
        },
        {
          "english": "a cave in a crag",
          "roman": "gankutsu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "窟",
              "くつ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌窟"
        },
        {
          "english": "sweet osmanthus, a kind of flowering bush",
          "roman": "mokusei",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "桂",
              "けい"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌桂: alternative name for 木犀"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ganketsu",
          "word": "巌穴 a hollow"
        },
        {
          "word": "small cave in a crag"
        },
        {
          "english": "a pine tree growing out of a crag or boulder",
          "roman": "ganshō",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "松",
              "しょう"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌松"
        },
        {
          "english": "a cluster of crag or boulder",
          "roman": "ganseki",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "石",
              "せき"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌石"
        },
        {
          "english": "water source",
          "roman": "gansen",
          "word": "巌泉: a spring in"
        },
        {
          "word": "between crag"
        },
        {
          "word": "boulder"
        },
        {
          "english": "a steep road in the mountain or crag",
          "roman": "ganso",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "阻",
              "そ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌阻"
        },
        {
          "english": "the top of a crag or boulder",
          "roman": "gantō",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "頭",
              "とう"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌頭"
        },
        {
          "english": "a cave in a crag",
          "roman": "gandō",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "巌",
              "がん"
            ],
            [
              "洞",
              "どう"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "巌洞"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ganpi",
          "word": "巌扉: the door"
        },
        {
          "word": "opening to a craggy area"
        },
        {
          "word": "the door"
        },
        {
          "word": "opening to a cave in a crag"
        },
        {
          "english": "lofty halls",
          "roman": "ganrō",
          "word": "巌廊: literally"
        },
        {
          "word": "the room to either side in a palace"
        },
        {
          "word": "by extension"
        },
        {
          "word": "the imperial court"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a rock, crag, or boulder"
      ],
      "id": "en-巌-ja-affix-m408CRBc",
      "links": [
        [
          "rock",
          "rock"
        ],
        [
          "crag",
          "crag"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "only found in compounds",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only found in compounds) a rock, crag, or boulder"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡã̠ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese Han characters",
    "Japanese affixes",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese kanji with ancient goon reading げむ",
    "Japanese kanji with ancient kan'on reading がむ",
    "Japanese kanji with goon reading げん",
    "Japanese kanji with historical goon reading げん",
    "Japanese kanji with historical kan'on reading がん",
    "Japanese kanji with kan'on reading がん",
    "Japanese kanji with kun reading いわ",
    "Japanese kanji with kun reading いわお",
    "Japanese kanji with kun reading けわ-しい",
    "Japanese kanji with nanori reading よし",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese single-kanji terms",
    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 巌",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
    "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character",
    "Kanji used for names"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巖",
      "tags": [
        "kyūjitai"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jinmeiyō",
        "kanji",
        "no-gloss",
        "shinjitai"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese affixes",
    "Japanese compound terms",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese proper nouns",
    "Japanese single-kanji terms",
    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 巌",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "いわお"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "穂",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ear of grain",
        "tr": "ho"
      },
      "expansion": "穂 (ho, “ear of grain”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "岩",
        "3": "秀",
        "pos2": "cognate with <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">穂</i> (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards",
        "sort": "いわお",
        "t1": "boulder; crag",
        "t2": "something tall and prominent",
        "tr1": "ipa → iwa",
        "tr2": "po → ho"
      },
      "expansion": "岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖",
        "2": "",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l/helper"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "/ipa po/ → /ifafo/ → /iwawo/ → /iwao/\nFrom Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.\nOriginally a compound of 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).\nThe character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巌",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "いわお"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iwao",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いはほ",
      "roman": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "いわお",
        "hhira": "いはほ"
      },
      "expansion": "巌(いわお) • (iwao) ^(←いはほ (ifafo)?)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a tall and large rock, crag, or boulder"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rock",
          "rock"
        ],
        [
          "crag",
          "crag"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いわお"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iɰᵝa̠o̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
    "Man'yōshū",
    "ja:新明解国語辞典"
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese affixes",
    "Japanese compound terms",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese proper nouns",
    "Japanese single-kanji terms",
    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 巌",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "いわお"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "穂",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ear of grain",
        "tr": "ho"
      },
      "expansion": "穂 (ho, “ear of grain”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "岩",
        "3": "秀",
        "pos2": "cognate with <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">穂</i> (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards",
        "sort": "いわお",
        "t1": "boulder; crag",
        "t2": "something tall and prominent",
        "tr1": "ipa → iwa",
        "tr2": "po → ho"
      },
      "expansion": "岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖",
        "2": "",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l/helper"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖",
      "name": "ja-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "/ipa po/ → /ifafo/ → /iwawo/ → /iwao/\nFrom Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū finished some time after 759 CE.\nOriginally a compound of 岩 (ipa → iwa, “boulder; crag”) + 秀 (po → ho, “something tall and prominent”, cognate with 穂 (ho, “ear of grain”), from the sense of something prominent sticking upwards).\nThe character is Japanese shinjitai, simplified from 巖.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巌",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "いわお"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Iwao",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いはほ",
      "roman": "ifafo",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper",
        "2": "いわお",
        "hhira": "いはほ"
      },
      "expansion": "巌(いわお) • (Iwao) ^(←いはほ (ifafo)?)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese given names",
        "Japanese male given names",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a male given name"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いわお"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iɰᵝa̠o̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
    "Man'yōshū",
    "ja:新明解国語辞典"
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese affixes",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese single-kanji terms",
    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 巌",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "岩"
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese affixes",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese single-kanji terms",
    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 巌",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "the underneath of a large rock, crag, or boulder",
      "roman": "ganka",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "下",
          "か"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌下"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gangan",
      "word": "巌巌: rocky"
    },
    {
      "word": "craggy"
    },
    {
      "word": "sophisticated"
    },
    {
      "word": "lofty"
    },
    {
      "word": "high-minded"
    },
    {
      "word": "noble"
    },
    {
      "english": "a cave in a crag",
      "roman": "gankutsu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "窟",
          "くつ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌窟"
    },
    {
      "english": "sweet osmanthus, a kind of flowering bush",
      "roman": "mokusei",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "桂",
          "けい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌桂: alternative name for 木犀"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ganketsu",
      "word": "巌穴 a hollow"
    },
    {
      "word": "small cave in a crag"
    },
    {
      "english": "a pine tree growing out of a crag or boulder",
      "roman": "ganshō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "松",
          "しょう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌松"
    },
    {
      "english": "a cluster of crag or boulder",
      "roman": "ganseki",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "石",
          "せき"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌石"
    },
    {
      "english": "water source",
      "roman": "gansen",
      "word": "巌泉: a spring in"
    },
    {
      "word": "between crag"
    },
    {
      "word": "boulder"
    },
    {
      "english": "a steep road in the mountain or crag",
      "roman": "ganso",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "阻",
          "そ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌阻"
    },
    {
      "english": "the top of a crag or boulder",
      "roman": "gantō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "頭",
          "とう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌頭"
    },
    {
      "english": "a cave in a crag",
      "roman": "gandō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ],
        [
          "洞",
          "どう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "巌洞"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ganpi",
      "word": "巌扉: the door"
    },
    {
      "word": "opening to a craggy area"
    },
    {
      "word": "the door"
    },
    {
      "word": "opening to a cave in a crag"
    },
    {
      "english": "lofty halls",
      "roman": "ganrō",
      "word": "巌廊: literally"
    },
    {
      "word": "the room to either side in a palace"
    },
    {
      "word": "by extension"
    },
    {
      "word": "the imperial court"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ltc",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "かん'"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Chinese",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "巖"
      },
      "expansion": "巖 (MC ngaem)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Chinese 巖 (MC ngaem).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巌",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "巌",
          "がん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gan",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "affix",
        "2": "がん"
      },
      "expansion": "巌(がん) • (gan)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "affix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a rock, crag, or boulder"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rock",
          "rock"
        ],
        [
          "crag",
          "crag"
        ],
        [
          "boulder",
          "boulder"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "only found in compounds",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only found in compounds) a rock, crag, or boulder"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡã̠ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "巌"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "巌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "巌",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "巌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "巌",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "巌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "巌",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "巌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "巌",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "巌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "affix",
  "title": "巌",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425",
  "msg": "巌/Japanese/soft-redirect: missing \"senses\" in data (must have at least one sense, add empty sense with \"no-gloss\" tag if none otherwise available): {\"categories\": [\"Japanese affixes\", \"Japanese entries with incorrect language header\", \"Japanese lemmas\", \"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks\", \"Japanese single-kanji terms\", \"Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese\", \"Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji\", \"Japanese terms spelled with 巌\", \"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation\", \"Japanese terms with multiple readings\", \"Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations\", \"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys\", \"Japanese terms written with one Han script character\"], \"lang\": \"Japanese\", \"lang_code\": \"ja\", \"pos\": \"soft-redirect\", \"redirects\": [\"岩\"], \"word\": \"巌\"}",
  "path": [],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "soft-redirect",
  "title": "巌",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.