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贍

贍

See also: 赡

Translingual

Han character

贍 (radical 154 貝+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月金弓金口 (BCNCR), four-corner 67861)

  1. support, aid
  2. to be sufficient
  3. rich, elegant

References

  • KangXi: page 1212, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36945
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1679, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3659, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8D0D

Chinese

trad. 贍
simp. 赡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贍
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (詹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
甔 *toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔 *taːm, *taːms
儋 *ʔl'aːm
聸 *taːm
膽 *taːmʔ
黵 *taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹 *daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺 *daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻 *tjam
詹 *tjam
蟾 *tjam, *djam
噡 *tjam
譫 *tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂 *tʰjams
贍 *djams
檐 *lam
簷 *lam
舚 *tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 贍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 時豔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiᴇmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɛmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjæmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiamH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɛmH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭɛmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ɛmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 贍
Reading # 1/1
No. 16772
Phonetic
component		 詹
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 贍
Old
Chinese		 /*djams/

Definitions

贍

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Japanese

Kanji

贍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

贍 • ‎(seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune-Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)

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