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暫

暫

See also: 暂

Translingual

Han character

暫 (radical 72 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十中日 (JLA), four-corner 52602, composition ⿱斬日)

  1. temporary

References

  • KangXi: page 499, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14120
  • Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1533, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+66AB

Chinese

trad. 暫
simp. 暂
alt. forms 蹔

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 暫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 藏濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zɑmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zɑmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zɑmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zamH/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zɑmH/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zɑmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 暫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzamH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤam-s/
English suddenly

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 暫
Reading # 1/1
No. 16793
Phonetic
component		 斬
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 暫
Old
Chinese		 /*zaːms/

Definitions

暫

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Compounds

  • 時來暫去／时来暂去
  • 暫且／暂且 (zànqiě)
  • 暫且擱下／暂且搁下
  • 暫停／暂停 (zàntíng)
  • 暫別／暂别
  • 暫勞永逸／暂劳永逸
  • 暫星／暂星
  • 暫時／暂时 (zànshí)
  • 暫止／暂止
  • 暫緩／暂缓
  • 暫音／暂音
  • 浮來暫去／浮来暂去
  • 短暫／短暂 (duǎnzàn)

Japanese

Kanji

暫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

暫 • ‎(jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune-Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

暫 (tạm)

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Compounds

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