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婪

婪

Translingual

Han character

婪 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木木女 (DDV), four-corner 44404, composition ⿱林女)

  1. covet
  2. covetous, avaricious

References

  • KangXi: page 265, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6436
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1056, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5A6A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 婪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (林) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
婪 *ɡ·ruːm
惏 *ɡ·ruːm
啉 *ɡ·ruːm
漤 *ɡ·ruːmʔ
醂 *ɡ·ruːmʔ
林 *ɡ·rɯm
琳 *ɡ·rɯm
淋 *ɡ·rɯm, *ɡ·rɯms
痳 *ɡ·rɯm
箖 *ɡ·rɯm
霖 *ɡ·rɯm
菻 *ɡ·rɯmʔ, *ɡ·rɯms
罧 *slɯmʔ, *srɯms
棽 *r̥ʰɯm, *srɯm
綝 *r̥ʰɯm
郴 *r̥ʰɯm
禁 *krɯm, *krɯms
襟 *krɯm
僸 *krɯms, *ŋɡrɯmʔ
澿 *ɡrɯm
噤 *ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms
凚 *ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms
齽 *ɡrɯms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 婪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ləm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləm/
Li
Rong		 /lᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /lɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤ[ə]m/
English to covet

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 婪
Reading # 1/1
No. 8160
Phonetic
component		 林
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 婪
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·ruːm/

Definitions

婪

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Compounds

  • 多婪
  • 婪尾酒
  • 婪索
  • 婪酣
  • 菴婪／庵婪

Japanese

Kanji

婪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

婪 • ‎(ram) (hangeul 람, revised ram, McCune-Reischauer ram)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婪 (lam)

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