巖 yán

1. yán noun precipice; cliff; rockface
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Variant: 岩 (ABC 6 'yán' 2; Kroll 2015 '巖' 1, p. 526)
2. yán adjective lofty; steep
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Variant: 岩 (Kroll 2015 '巖' 1a, p. 526)
3. yán adjective precarious; rugged
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Variant: 岩 (Kroll 2015 '巖' 1b, p. 526)
4. yán noun a mountain cave
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Variant: 岩 (Kroll 2015 '巖' 1b, p. 526)

Contained in

• 巖徼 inaccessible frontier area
• 巉巖 a steep slope

Also contained in

翠巖眉毛 、 翠巖可真 、 翠巖夏末示众

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• 卷四十七 雜傳第三十五: 華溫琪 萇從簡 張筠 楊彥詢 李周 劉處讓 李承約 張希崇 相里金 張廷蘊 馬全節 皇甫遇 安彥威 李瓊 劉景巖 Volume 47 Miscellaneous Biographies 27: Hua Wenqi, Chang Congjian, Zhang Yun, Yang Yanxun, Li Zhou, Liu Churang, Li Chengyue, Zhang Xichong, Xiang Lijin, Zhang Tingyun, Ma Quanjie, Huang Fuyu, An Yanwei, Li Qiong, Liu Jingyan New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 21
• 卷四十二 雜傳第三十: 朱宣 王師範 李罕之 孟方立 王珂 趙犨 馮行襲 Volume 42 Miscellaneous Biographies 22: Zhu Xuan, Wang Shifan, Li Hanzhi, Meng Fangli, Wang Ke, Zhao Chou, Feng Xingxi New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 19
• 卷二十二 Scroll 22 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
• 卷六十七 列傳第二十七 謝靈運 Volume 67 Biographies 27: Xie Lingyun Book of Song 宋書 — count: 16
• 卷四十五 志第二十一 地理六 Volume 45 Treatises 21: Geography 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 15
• 卷七十五　列傳第六十三:　趙煚 趙芬 王韶 元巖 宇文㢸 伊婁謙 李圓通 郭榮 龐晃 李安 楊尚希 張煚 蘇孝慈 元壽 Volume 75 Biographies 63: Zhao Jiong, Zhao Fen, Wang Shao, Yuan Yan, Yu Wenbi, Yi Louqian, Li Yuantong, Guo Rong, Pang Huang, Li An, Yang Shangxi, Zhang Jiong, Su Xiaoci, Yuan Shou History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 14
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 14
• 卷一百九十二 列傳第一百四十二: 隱逸 Volume 192 Biographies 142: Recluses Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 13
• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷八 Scroll 8 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12

Collocations

• 巖穴 (巖穴) 古之人有居巖穴而神不遺者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一　原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 25
• 巖巖 (巖巖) 維石巖巖 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧節南山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Jie Nan Shan — count: 24
• 傅巖 (傅巖) 說筑傅巖之野 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 說命上（僞） Shang Shu - Charge to Yue I (forged) — count: 9
• 巖石 (巖石) 碭山澤巖石之閒 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 6
• 巖居 (巖居) 巖居谷飲 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八　人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 6
• 石巖 (石巖) 維石巖巖 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧節南山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Jie Nan Shan — count: 4
• 嵚巖 (嶔巖) 必於殽之嵚巖 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 崭巖 (嶄巖) 故舜棄黃金於嶄巖之山 — New Discussions 新語, 卷上　道基第一　術事第二　輔政第三　無為第四　辨惑第五　慎微第六　Scroll 1 — count: 4
• 山巖 (山巖) 常講學於山巖 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十一 魏書十一 袁張涼國田王邴管傳 Volume 11: Book of Wei 11 - Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Liang, Guo, Tian, Wang, Bing, and Guan — count: 3
• 巖山 (巖山) 葬丹陽秣陵縣巖山景寧陵 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷六 本紀第六 孝武帝 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Xiao Wu — count: 3