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啖

啖

啖 U+5556, 啖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5556
← 啕
[U+5555] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 啗 →
[U+5557]
See also: 啗

Translingual

Han character

啖 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口火火 (RFF), four-corner 69089, composition ⿰口炎)

  1. eat, feed
  2. chew, bite
  3. entice

References

  • KangXi: page 196, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3824
  • Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 646, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5556

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 啖
alt. forms 噉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 啖 啖
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒敢切 徒濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /damX/ /damH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑmX/ /dʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dàn dàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 啖
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ damX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-rˤamʔ/
English eat

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 啖 啖
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14301 14306
Phonetic
component		 炎 炎
Rime
group		 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 噉 憺
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/

Definitions

啖

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Compounds

  • 倒啖蔗
  • 啖名
  • 啖噬
  • 啖指咬舌
  • 啖蔗
  • 啖食
  • 大啖一番
  • 拔葵啖棗／拔葵啖枣
  • 飽啖一頓／饱啖一顿
  • 餐松啖柏

Japanese

Kanji

啖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

啖 • ‎(dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

啖 (dạm, đạm, giảm)

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