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唸

唸

唸 U+5538, 唸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5538
← 唷
[U+5537] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 唹 →
[U+5539]
See also: 念

Translingual

Han character

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

  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. 唸
simp. 念

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (念) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
淰 *rnɯːmʔ, *nɯːmʔ, *hnjɯmʔ
唸 *tɯːms, *tɯːns
埝 *tɯːms, *nɯːb
趝 *klɯːms, *n̥ʰɯːms
諗 *hnjɯmʔ
稔 *njɯːm
棯 *njɯmʔ
腍 *njɯmʔ
捻 *nɯːb
錜 *nɯːb
敜 *nɯːb
惗 *nɯːb, *sens
菍 *nɯːb, *nɯːd

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 唸
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/ 俗
Rime
Character 唸 唸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 端 (5) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 都甸切 都念切
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 唸 唸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9489 9499
Phonetic
component		 念 念
Rime
group		 侵 文
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 店 殿
Old
Chinese		 /*tɯːms/ /*tɯːns/

Definitions

唸

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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

唸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

唸 • ‎(jeom, jeon) (hangeul 점, 전, revised jeom, jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏm, chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

唸 (nếm, điếm, điệm, niệm)

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