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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹土 (EBHG), four-corner 32114, composition)

  1. obscene, licentious, lewd

References

  • KangXi: page 631, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1654, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6DEB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lɯm
*lɯm
*lɯm

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/jim/
Shao
Rongfen
/jem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jim/
Li
Rong
/iəm/
Wang
Li
/jĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yín
Middle
Chinese
‹ yim ›
Old
Chinese
/*N.r[ə]m/
English excess; licentious

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. 15291
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lɯm/

Definitions

  1. excess; excessive; wanton; lewd; lascivious; obscene; depraved

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(eum) (hangeul , revised eum, McCune-Reischauer ŭm, Yale um)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(dâm, dầm, đầm, đẫm, đằm, giầm)

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