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奄

奄

Translingual

Han character

奄 (radical 37 大+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大中田山 (KLWU), four-corner 40716, composition ⿱大电)

References

  • KangXi: page 250, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5881
  • Dae Jaweon: page 510, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 534, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5944

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 奄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
庵 *qoːm, *qoːb
鵪 *qoːm
菴 *qoːm, *qrom
馣 *qoːm
晻 *qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
唵 *qoːmʔ
黤 *qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
埯 *qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
淹 *qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
閹 *qrom, *qromʔ
崦 *qrom
醃 *qrom, *qom
掩 *qromʔ
奄 *qromʔ
罨 *qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
裺 *qromʔ, *qoms
俺 *qromʔ, *qoms
腌 *qom, *qrob, *qob
殗 *qob
餣 *qob

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 奄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 衣儉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjiamX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjɛmX/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjemX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔ(r)omʔ/
English cover

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 奄
Reading # 1/1
No. 14344
Phonetic
component		 奄
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 奄
Old
Chinese		 /*qromʔ/

Definitions

奄

  1. before long, soon, erelong
  2. remain, tarry
  3. feeble

Japanese

Kanji

奄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

奄 (ăm)

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