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淫

淫

See also: 婬

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
 淫

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘針切
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 淫
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 淫
Reading # 1/1
No. 15291
Phonetic
component		 淫
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 淫
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯm/

Definitions

淫

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

Japanese

Kanji

淫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

淫 (dâm, dầm, đầm, đẫm, đằm, giầm)

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