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U+54B8, 咸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B8

[U+54B7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+54B9]
See also: , , and

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一口 (IHMR), four-corner 53200, composition)

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 187, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3563
  • Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1404, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+54B8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯːmʔ
*kɯːmʔ
*kʰɯːmʔ, *ŋɡrɯːms
*kʰɯːmʔ, *kʰɯːms
*ɡɯːmʔ
*ɡɯːms
*qʰaːmʔ, *qʰrɯːmʔ, *ɡrɯːmʔ
*krɯːm
*krɯːm, *kjum
*krɯːm, *ŋɡrɯːm
*krɯːmʔ, *ɡrɯːmʔ
*ŋɡrɯːm, *ɡram
*ŋɡrɯːm
*ɡrɯːm
*ɡrɯːm
*ɡrɯːm
*ɡrɯːm
*ɡrɯːm
*ɡrɯːm
*ɡam, *ɡram, *kjɯm
*kjɯm
*kjɯm
*kjum

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (axe) +  (mouth (person) or clay pot). To cut off one's head with an ax, depriving them of all they have; alternatively, to break a pot with an ax.

Simplified from as well.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (151)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠɛm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚæm/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɐm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəɨm/
Li
Rong
/ɣɐm/
Wang
Li
/ɣɐm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xián
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xián
Middle
Chinese
‹ hɛm ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤr[ə]m/
English all; everywhere

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13515
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯːm/
Notes

Definitions

  1. together
  2. all; completely
  3. united
  4. 31st hexagram of the I Ching
  5. A surname.

Compounds

  • 咸五登三
  • 咸和
  • 咸宜 (xiányí)
  • 咸池
  • 咸豐咸丰
  • 咸豐草咸丰草
  • 咸陽咸阳 (Xiányáng)
  • 咸陽宮咸阳宫
  • 咸陽火咸阳火
  • 大咸
  • 季咸
  • 巫咸
  • 彭咸
  • 悲犬咸陽悲犬咸阳
  • 老少咸宜 (lǎoshàoxiányí)
  • 老幼咸宜
  • 阮咸 (ruǎnxián)
  • 阿咸

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ham) (hangeul , revised ham, McCune-Reischauer ham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References