• 巌いわお

  huge rock, massive boulder

• 巉巌ざんがん

  near-vertical cliff or peak

• 巌窟王がんくつおう

  The Count of Monte Cristo (novel by Alexandre Dumas)

• 碧巌録へきがんろく

  Blue Cliff Record, Biyan Lu (collection of Zen Buddhist koans compiled in China during the Song Dynasty)

• 枯木寒巌こぼくかんがん

  withered trees and frozen rocks, a person that is hard to approach

• 巌巌としたがんがんとした

  craggy, steep (as of a mountain)