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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 85 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水火火 (EFF), four-corner 39189) jjj

  1. watered down, bland, modest, essential

References

  • KangXi: page 630, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17660
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1660, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6DE1

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
*l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
*l̥ʰaːmʔ
*l̥ʰaːmʔ
*l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
*l̥ʰaːms
*l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
*l̥ʰaːms
*l'aːm
*l'aːm
*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
*l'aːm
*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
*l'aːm
*l'aːm
*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
*l'aːms
*ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
*hljamʔ
*hljams
*ɦlam
*lamʔ
*lamʔ
*lamʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial () (7) (7) (36) (7)
Final () (143) (143) (153) (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () I I III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jiᴇmX/ /dɑmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jiɛmX/ /dɑmH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jæmX/ /dɑmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dam/ /damX/ /jiamX/ /damH/
Li
Rong
/dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /iɛmX/ /dɑmH/
Wang
Li
/dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jĭɛmX/ /dɑmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑm/ /dʱɑmX/ /i̯ɛmX/ /dʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tán dàn yǎn dàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ damX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[l]ˤamʔ/
English insipid

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. 14296 14300 14305 14319
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːm/ /*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/ /*lamʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. diluted
  2. pale

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(dam) (hangeul , revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm)

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