Character: 嵁
Modern (Beijing) reading: kān
Preclassic Old Chinese: khǝ̄m
Classic Old Chinese: khǝ̄m
Western Han Chinese: khǝ̄m
Eastern Han Chinese: khǝ̄m
Early Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄m
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄m
Late Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄m
Middle Chinese: khʌm
English meaning : rocky, precipitous [L.Zhou]
Comments: Also read *khrǝ̄m, MC khạ̈m id. During L.Zhou attested only within the die-sheng 嵁嚴 *kh(r)ǝ̄m-ŋǝm id. (whence, through assimilation, two other MC readings: ŋлm and ŋạ̈m); later (Qi) attested also separately. Cf. also 嶔 and 嶔 (the latter word, although very similar both phonetically and semantically, seems to have a different ST etymology).
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0658 r
