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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木戈戈竹 (DIIH), four-corner 43922, composition)

  1. lush growth (trees)
  2. (archaic) fishing using bundled wood

References

  • KangXi: page 547, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15370
  • Dae Jaweon: page 935, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1286, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+69EE

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːms
*sʰluːm, *sʰluːms, *sloːm, *sʰrum, *srum
*sʰluːm
*sʰluːm, *sʰluːmʔ
*sʰluːmʔ
*sʰluːmʔ, *sʰloːmʔ
*sʰluːms
毿 *sluːm
*sluːm, *srum
*sluːm, *sru, *srɯu
*sluːmʔ
*sluːmʔ, *sʰrum, *srum, *srumʔ
*sloːm
*sruːm, *sruːmʔ
*sruːmʔ, *sʰrumʔ
縿 *sroːm
*sroːm
*sʰrum
*sʰrumʔ
*sʰrumʔ
*srum
*srumʔ
*srums

Pronunciation



  • Middle Chinese: /ʃˠiɪm/, /t͡ʃʰˠiɪm/, /ʃˠiɪmX/, /sʌmX/
Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial () (21) (19) (21) (16)
Final () (140) (140) (140) (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () Chongniu III Chongniu III Chongniu III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠiɪm/ /t͡ʃʰˠiɪm/ /ʃˠiɪmX/ /sʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚim/ /ʈ͡ʂʰᵚim/ /ʃᵚimX/ /səmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃiem/ /t͡ʃʰiem/ /ʃiemX/ /sɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂjim/ /ʈ͡ʂʰjim/ /ʂjimX/ /səmX/
Li
Rong
/ʃjəm/ /t͡ʃʰjəm/ /ʃjəmX/ /sᴀmX/
Wang
Li
/ʃĭĕm/ /t͡ʃʰĭĕm/ /ʃĭĕmX/ /sɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂi̯əm/ /ʈ͡ʂʰi̯əm/ /ʂi̯əmX/ /sămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shēn chēn shěn sǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsrhim ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.r̥[ə]m/
English tall (tree)

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 # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 1093 1104 1111 1113
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sluːmʔ/ /*sʰrum/ /*srum/ /*srumʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. thicket
  2. thickly intertwined branches

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. plain and smooth

Vietnamese

Han character

(sim)

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References