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儼

儼

儼 U+513C, 儼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-513C
← 儻
[U+513B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 儽 →
[U+513D]
See also: 俨

Translingual

Han character

儼 (radical 9 人+20, 22 strokes, cangjie input 人口口大 (ORRK), four-corner 26248, composition ⿰亻嚴)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 122, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1324
  • Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 240, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+513C

Chinese

trad. 儼
simp. 俨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儼
Bronze inscriptions

b12259
Large seal script

L35502

L18748

L18749

L18747
Small seal script

s05714
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (敢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撖 *kʰɯːm, *kʰreːmʔ, *ɡraːmʔ
澉 *l̥ʰaːms, *klaːmʔ
噉 *l'aːmʔ
敢 *klaːmʔ
橄 *klaːmʔ
瞰 *kʰlaːms
闞 *kʰlaːms, *qʰreːmʔ, *hŋraːms
憨 *qʰaːm, *qʰlaːms
譀 *qʰlaːms, *qʰraːms, *qʰraːb
巖 *ŋraːm
礹 *ŋraːm, *ŋamʔ
豃 *qʰraːmʔ
讝 *kjam
玁 *hŋramʔ
嚴 *ŋam
儼 *ŋamʔ
曮 *ŋamʔ
釅 *ŋams

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 儼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 嚴 (145)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 魚掩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɨɐmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋiɐmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiɐmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɨamX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiɐmX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭɐmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi̯ɐmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 儼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjæmX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ(r)[a]mʔ/
English dignified

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 儼
Reading # 1/1
No. 3693
Phonetic
component		 敢
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋamʔ/
Notes 原誤魯掩切依王韻校正，巾箱本魚不誤

Definitions

儼

  1. grave, respectful, majestic

Japanese

Kanji

儼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: げん (gen)
  • Kun: おごそか (ogosoka), いかめしい (ikameshii)

Korean

Hanja

儼 • ‎(eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune-Reischauer ŏm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

儼 (nghiễm)

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