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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓口戈 (VFNRI), four-corner 27913)

References

  • KangXi: page 943, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28070
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3469, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7E94

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm
*zrɯːm, *zraːms
*zrɯːm
*zrɯːm, *zraːm
*zrɯːm, *zraːms
*zrɯːm, *sʰraːm
*zrɯːm, *zrɯːms, *sʰraːms
*zrɯːm
*zrɯːmʔ
*sʰraːms, *zraːm, *zlamʔ
*zraːm, *zraːmʔ
*zraːm
*zraːm, *zraːms
*zraːm, *zraːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *zrɯːm, *zraːm).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“just; only”).
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/3
Initial () (21)
Final () (149)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠam/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚam/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃam/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨm/
Li
Rong
/ʃam/
Wang
Li
/ʃam/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂam/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 3/3
No. 1244
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sraːm/

Definitions

  1. reddish black

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jae) (hangeul , revised jae, McCune-Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tài)

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