# 厂

| 厂 | U+5382, &#21378; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5382 |
| ← 厁 [U+5381] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 厃 → [U+5383] |
| ⼚ | U+2F1A, &#12058; KANGXI RADICAL CLIFF |
| ← ⼙ [U+2F19] | Kangxi Radicals | ⼛ → [U+2F1B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

厂 (Kangxi radical 27, 厂+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一竹 (MH), four-corner 7120$_0$, 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 |
| | 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

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 (han$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hon$^3$ / hon$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hǎn
*** Wade–Giles: han$^3$
*** Yale: hǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haan
*** Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /xän²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hon$^3$ / hon$^2$
*** Yale: hon / hón
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hon$^3$ / hon$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hon$^3$ / hon$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /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 | hon$^2$ | hon$^3$ |
* 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 | 厂 | 厂 |
| 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
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ān (an$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): am$^1$
* Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): am$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ān
*** Zhuyin: ㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: an
*** Wade–Giles: an$^1$
*** Yale: ān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
*** Palladius: ань (anʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: am$^1$
*** Yale: ām
*** Cantonese Pinyin: am$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: em$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɐm⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: am$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: am
*** Sinological IPA : /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).

### Usage notes

* As a component of other characters, 厂 can be referred to as 偏廠兒／偏厂儿 (piānchǎngr), 廠字頭／厂字头 (chǎngzìtóu), or 廠字旁／厂字旁 (chǎngzìpáng).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* Kangxi radical 27 "cliff"

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): かん (kan)、げん (gen)、ごん (gon)
* Kun: がんだれ (gandare)、いしだれ (ishidare)

#### References

* Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 033510

## Korean
### Hanja

厂 • (giseuk eom, han) (hangeul 기슭 엄, 한)
* hill

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

厂: Hán Việt readings: xưởng, hán, am
厂: Nôm readings: xưởng, hán

### Noun

厂 • (xưởng, hán)
* chữ Hán form of hán (“Kangxi radical 27—‘cliff’”).

### References

* Nôm Foundation
* Viet Dictionary