厂

See also: ⼚, 广, and 𠂆

厂	U+5382, 厂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5382

← 厁
[U+5381]

CJK Unified Ideographs

厃 →
[U+5383]

⼚	U+2F1A, ⼚ KANGXI RADICAL CLIFF

← ⼙
[U+2F19]

Kangxi Radicals

⼛ →
[U+2F1B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

厂 (Kangxi radical 27, 厂+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一竹 (MH), four-corner 7120₀, composition ⿰丿一)

Kangxi radical #27, ⼚.

Descendants

ㄏ
ㆷ

Derived characters

Appendix:Chinese radical/厂
𡉃, 𬑹, 仄, 圧, 𣱷, 𥎦, 辰, 𣅛, 𡸡, 雁, 𣣾, 鳫, 鴈, 𦃢, 龎, 广, 屵, 产

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 160, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2890
Dae Jaweon: page 366, character 21
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 67, character 16
Unihan data for U+5382

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 厂
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
厂	hŋaːnʔ, hŋaːns
屵	*ŋaːd

Etymology 1: Simplified from 厰 (elimination of 敞).
Etymology 2: Pictogram (象形) – a cliff. It usually appears on top of the character. An exception is 彥, in which is written in the middle of the component 彣. See also 石, in which it appears as 丆. See also 厃 and the left part of 段. Unrelated to 广 and 灰.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 厂 – see 廠 (“shack; shed; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 廠).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		厂
alternative forms		厈

From the stem *ŋaʔ (“to oppose; to resist”), i.e. “that which resists (the river's flow)”, with a voiceless initial (used to signify that that the noun refers to a natural object) and a general noun suffix *-n; related to 岸 (OC *ŋɡaːns, “bank; shore”), 滸 (OC *hŋaːʔ, “riverbank”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎn (han³)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hon³ / hon²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎn
  - Wade–Giles: han³
  - Yale: hǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haan
  - Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hon³ / hon²
  - Yale: hon / hón
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hon³ / hon²
  - Guangdong Romanization: hon³ / hon²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn³³/, /hɔːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese: xanX, xanH

Rime
Character	厂	厂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	呼旱切	呼旰切
Baxter	xanX	xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑn^X/	/hɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑn^X/	/hɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑn^X/	/xɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/han^X/	/han^H/
Li Rong	/xɑn^X/	/xɑn^H/
Wang Li	/xɑn^X/	/xɑn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑn^X/	/xɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hǎn	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hon²	hon³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ̊ˤarʔ/, /*ŋ̊ˤar(ʔ)-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*hŋaːnʔ/, /*hŋaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	厂	厂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hàn	hàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xan^X ›	‹ xan^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊ˁarʔ/	/*ŋ̊ˁar(ʔ)-s/
English	cliff	cliff
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	厂	厂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4883	4884
Phonetic component
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	䍐	漢
Old Chinese	/*hŋaːnʔ/	/*hŋaːns/

Definitions

厂

(obsolete) cliff; habitable cave on a cliff

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		厂

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ān (an¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): am¹
Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): am¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ān
  - Zhuyin: ㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: an
  - Wade–Giles: an¹
  - Yale: ān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
  - Palladius: ань (anʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: am¹
  - Yale: ām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: am¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: em¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: am¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: am
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /am³³/

Definitions

厂

alternative form of 庵 (ān), usually used in names.

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 厂 – see 䉷 (“object for hiding when shooting birds; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 䉷).