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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹土 (VHG), four-corner 42414, composition)

  1. conceive
  2. be pregnant

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
*nɯmʔ
*nɯms
*njɯm, *njɯms
*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯmʔ
*njɯms
*njɯms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (139)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵimH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiəmH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rèn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10822
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njɯms/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. pregnancy

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhâm)

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