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Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心十十中 (PJJL), four-corner 92021, composition)

  1. ashamed, humiliated
  2. shameful

References

  • KangXi: page 398, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11096
  • Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2344, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+615A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*zaːm
*zaːm
*zaːm, *zaːmʔ, *zaːms, *zeːm, *zamʔ
*zaːmʔ, *sʰam, *sʰams, *zamʔ
*zaːms
*zaːms
*ʔsreːmʔ
*zeːm, *zaːm
*zreːmʔ, *zaːm
*ʔsraːms
*sʰraːms
*ʔsam, *zamʔ
*sʰams
*sʰams
*sʰams
*zam, *zamʔ
*zamʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 16788
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zaːm/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 大言不慚大言不惭
  • 慚德惭德
  • 慚怍惭怍
  • 慚恧惭恧
  • 慚恨惭恨
  • 慚恩惭恩
  • 慚悚惭悚
  • 慚惶惭惶
  • 慚感惭感
  • 慚愧惭愧 (cánkuì)
  • 慚愧無地惭愧无地
  • 慚沮惭沮
  • 慚皺惭皱
  • 慚色惭色
  • 慚赧惭赧
  • 慚鳧企鶴惭凫企鹤
  • 林慚澗愧林惭涧愧
  • 滿面羞慚满面羞惭
  • 燕妒鶯慚燕妒莺惭
  • 羞慚羞惭 (xiūcán)
  • 自慚形穢自惭形秽
  • 衾影無慚衾影无惭

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tàm, tuồm, tam, tom, tùm)

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