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慙

慙

See also: 慚

Translingual

Han character

慙 (radical 61 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十中心 (JLP), composition ⿱斬心)

  1. ashamed, humiliated
  2. shameful

References

  • KangXi: page 398, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11095
  • Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2341, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6159

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 慙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (斬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
慚 *zaːm
慙 *zaːm
鏨 *zaːm, *zaːmʔ, *zaːms, *zeːm, *zamʔ
槧 *zaːmʔ, *sʰam, *sʰams, *zamʔ
暫 *zaːms
蹔 *zaːms
斬 *ʔsreːmʔ
獑 *zeːm, *zaːm
嶃 *zreːmʔ, *zaːm
覱 *ʔsraːms
摲 *sʰraːms
漸 *ʔsam, *zamʔ
塹 *sʰams
壍 *sʰams
嬱 *sʰams
螹 *zam, *zamʔ
蔪 *zamʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 慙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 昨甘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zɑm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zɑm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zam/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zɑm/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzam ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤam/
English ashamed

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 慙
Reading # 1/1
No. 16789
Phonetic
component		 斬
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 慙
Old
Chinese		 /*zaːm/

Japanese

Kanji

慙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

慙 • ‎(cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune-Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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Vietnamese

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References

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