# 岬

| 岬 | U+5CAC, &#23724; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CAC |
| ← 岫 [U+5CAB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 岭 → [U+5CAD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

岬 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 山田中 (UWL), four-corner 2675$_0$, composition ⿰山甲)
* cape
* promontory, headland

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 309, character 23
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7992
* Dae Jaweon: page 609, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 766, character 13
* Unihan data for U+5CAC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 笚 | *ʔl'aːb, *ɡraːb |
| 閘 | *klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb |
| 鉀 | *klaːb, *kraːb |
| 甲 | *kraːb |
| 胛 | *kraːb |
| 岬 | *kraːb |
| 押 | *kraːb, *qraːb |
| 玾 | *kraːb |
| 呷 | *qʰraːb |
| 匣 | *ɡraːb |
| 狎 | *ɡraːb |
| 柙 | *ɡraːb |
| 翈 | *ɡraːb |
| 炠 | *ɡraːb |
| 鴨 | *qraːb |
| 庘 | *qraːb |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːb) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 甲 (OC *kraːb).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jiǎ (jia$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gaap$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jiǎ
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jiǎ
*** Wade–Giles: chia$^3$
*** Yale: jyǎ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jea
*** Palladius: цзя (czja)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ä²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gaap$^3$
*** Yale: gaap
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gaap$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gab$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kaːp̚³/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*kraːb/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 岬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5933 |
| Phonetic component | 甲 |
| Rime group | 盍 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 甲 |
| Old Chinese | /*kraːb/ |
| Notes | 廣韻作石旁集韻或作岬 |

### Definitions

岬
* side of a mountain
* (geography) cape
    Synonyms: 角, 海角 (hǎijiǎo)

### Compounds

* 岬角
* 海岬 (hǎijiǎ)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* peninsula; promontory; cape; spit
    Synonym: 崎

#### Readings

* Go-on: きょう (kyō)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kun: みさき (misaki, 岬, Jōyō)
* Nanori: さき (saki)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 岬
* みさき Grade: S
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spellings
* 崎 碕 (rare)
From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720.
Analyzable as a compound of み (mi, see below) +‎ 先 (saki, “tip, point; promontory”).
The mi prefix is likely the honorific prefix 御 (mi-), and the term misaki is attested explicitly with the spelling 御碕 (mi-saki) in the Nihon Shoki.
Alternative theories as to the identity of the み (mi) include:
* 水 (mi, “water”, bound prefix form of 水 (mizu)), although the semantics this suggests may instead mean “water tip”, i.e. a jutting-out of water, not of land — an inlet.
* Shift from 海 (umi, “sea”), with the same consideration as above.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) みさき [mìsákí] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [mʲisa̠kʲi]

### Noun

岬(みさき) • (misaki)
* [from 720] (geography) cape, promontory, point
    襟(えり)裳(も)岬(みさき)
       Erimo-misaki
       Cape Erimo

### References

* 1 2 3 “岬・崎・碕”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
* ↑ “岬”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
* ↑ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
* ↑ Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
* 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* 1 2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

岬 • (gap) (hangeul 갑, revised gap, McCune–Reischauer kap)
* cape, headland

## Vietnamese
### Han character

岬: Hán Nôm readings: giáp
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