What 岩 means
It names a large rock or cliff. Chinese uses 岩 for crags and geological rock: 岩石 is rock and 岩壁 is a rock face. Japanese says いわ on its own and ガン inside compounds. The earliest cited bare-form evidence is a stone inscription from Eastern Han, Jianhe 2. 山 plus 石 suggests a large mountain stone; older Chinese use covers steep or dangerous crags, while modern technical use covers rock material. Font variation changes style, not meaning.
Plain and descriptive; geology compounds make it technical.
For a shore or bank, use 岸, not 岩.
Who writes 岩
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 岩 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 岩
- Search it as
- rock · cliff · crag · boulder · yan · iwa · gan · 巖
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
岩\5CA9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.