峰

See also: 峯
峰 U+5CF0, 峰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CF0
← 峯
[U+5CEF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 峱 →
[U+5CF1]

Translingual

Han character

峰 (radical 46, 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 山竹水十 (UHEJ), four-corner 27754, composition ⿰山夆)

Derived characters
  • 𫌛

References
  • KangXi: page 311, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8094
  • Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 775, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+5CF0

Chinese
trad. 峰/峯
simp. 峰

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰoŋ) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 夆 (OC *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • hong - literary;
  • pang - vernacular.
Rime
Character 峰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 敷容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰuawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /pʰioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fēng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 峰
Reading # 1/1
No. 3225
Phonetic
component		 丰
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 峯
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰoŋ/
Notes 峯字注或體

Definitions

峰

  1. peak; summit
  2. hump (of a camel)
  3. Classifier for camels.

Compounds
Derived terms from 峰

Japanese

Kanji
峰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
峰
お
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

峰 (hiragana お, rōmaji o, historical hiragana を)

  1. (obsolete) a small place in the mountain
  2. (obsolete) hill, hilltop
    c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 19, poem 4151), text here
    今 (け)日 (ふ)之 (の)為 (ため)等 (と)思 (おもひ)標 (しめ)之 (し)足 (あし)引 (ひき)乃 (の)峯 (をの)上 (へ)之 (の)櫻 (さくら)如 (か)此 (く)開 (さき)尓 (に)家 (け)里 (り) [Man'yōgana]
    今 (け)日 (ふ)のためと思 (おも)ひて標 (しめ)しあしひきの峰 (を)の上 (へ)の桜 (さくら)かく咲 (さ)きにけり [Modern spelling]
    kyō no tame to omoite shimeshi ashihiki no onoe no sakura kaku saki ni keri
    For the sake of today's feast I thought and put up a sign. The cherry of the foot-dragging hill-tops has come to blossom thus.[1]
  3. (obsolete) peak, ridge
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
峰
ね
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Used mainly in compounds.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

峰 (hiragana ね, rōmaji ne)

  1. summit of a mountain, peak
    c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3515), text here
    阿 (あ)我 (が)於 (お)毛 (も)乃 (の)和 (わ)須 (す)礼 (れ)牟 (む)之 (し)太 (だ)波 (は)久 (く)尓 (に)波 (は)布 (ふ)利 (り)祢 (ね)尓 (に)多 (た)都 (つ)久 (く)毛 (も)乎 (を)見 (み)都 (つ)追 (つ)之 (し)努 (の)波 (は)西 (せ) [Man'yōgana]
    我 (あ)が面 (おも)の忘 (わす)れむしだは国 (くに)はふり嶺 (ね)に立 (た)つ雲 (くも)を見 (み)つつ偲 (しの)はせ [Modern spelling]
    aga omo no wasuremu shida wa kuni wa furi ne ni tatsukumo o mitsutsu shinowase
    The moment you might forget my face, seeing the clouds overflowing the country and rising on the peaks, think of me![3]

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
峰
みね
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From 御 (み) (mi, honorific prefix) + 峰 (ね) (ne, “peak”)[2], in reference to the 神 (kami, “god or spirit”) at the top of a mountain. Now the standard spelling for a peak.

Compare 道 (michi, “road”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

峰 (hiragana みね, rōmaji mine)

  1. peak, ridge
    912, Kokin Wakashū, poem 365 (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 16)
    立 (た)ち別 (わか)れいなばの山 (やま)の峰 (みね)に生 (お)ふるまつとし聞 (き)かば今 (いま)帰 (かへ)り来 (こ)む
    tachi-wakare Inaba-no-yama no mine ni ouru matsu to shi kikaba ima kaeri-kon
    Even if I depart and go to Inaba Mountain, on whose peak grow pines, if I hear you pine for me, I will return straightway to you.[4]
    912, Kokin Wakashū, poem 776 (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 13)
    筑 (つく)波 (ば)嶺 (ね)の峰 (みね)より落 (お)つるみなの川 (がは)恋 (こひ)ぞ積 (つ)もりて淵 (ふち)となりぬる
    Tsukuba-ne no mine yori otsuru Minano-gawa koi zo tsumorite fuchi to nari nuru
    Falling from the ridge of high Tsukuba, the Minano River at last gathers itself, like my love, into a deep, still pool.[5]
  2. (by extension) top or summit of something
  3. back of a blade

Proper noun

峰 (hiragana みね, rōmaji Mine)

  1. A place name
  2. A female given name
  3. A surname​.

References
  1. Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1963) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated Book XIX, Brill Archive, page 14
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1958) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated Book XX, Brill Archive, page 74
  4. Joshua S. Mostow (1996) Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 190
  5. Kenneth Rexroth (1964) One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 103

Korean

Hanja

峰 • (bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune–Reischauer pong)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

峰 (phong)

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