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U+5538, 唸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5538

[U+5537]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5539]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口人戈心 (ROIP), four-corner 68032, composition)

  1. recite, read, chant

References

  • KangXi: page 194, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3773
  • Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 644, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5538

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rnɯːmʔ, *nɯːmʔ, *hnjɯmʔ
*tɯːms, *tɯːns
*tɯːms, *nɯːb
*klɯːms, *n̥ʰɯːms
*hnjɯmʔ
*njɯːm
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*nɯːb
*nɯːb
*nɯːb
*nɯːb, *sens
*nɯːb, *nɯːd

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /nian⁵¹/
Harbin /nian⁵³/
Tianjin /nian⁵³/
Jinan /ȵiã²¹/
Qingdao /niã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /nian³¹²/
Xi'an /niã⁴⁴/
Xining /ȵiã²¹³/
Yinchuan /nian¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ȵian²¹³/
Wuhan /niɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /ȵian¹³/
Guiyang /nian²¹³/
Kunming /niɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /lien⁴⁴/
Hefei /liĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /nie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ȵie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /nie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ȵi²³/
Suzhou /ȵiɪ³¹/
Hangzhou /ȵiẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi²²/
Hui Shexian /ne²²/
Tunxi /ȵiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ȵiẽ⁵⁵/
/ȵiẽ¹¹/
Xiangtan /ȵiẽ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiɛn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ŋiam⁵³/
Taoyuan /ŋiɑm⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nim²²/
Nanning /nim²²/
Hong Kong /nim²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /liam²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /naiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /niŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /niam³⁵/
/niam³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /niam³³/
/ŋiam³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (5) (5)
Final () (85) (157)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tenH/ /temH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tenH/ /temH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛnH/ /tɛmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛnH/ /tɛmH/
Li
Rong
/tenH/ /temH/
Wang
Li
/tienH/ /tiemH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tienH/ /tiemH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diàn diàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9489 9499
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
殿
Old
Chinese
/*tɯːms/ /*tɯːns/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 吃齋唸佛吃斋念佛
  • 唸咒念咒
  • 唸唸有詞念念有词

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeom, jeon) (hangeul , , revised jeom, jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏm, chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nếm, điếm, điệm, niệm)

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