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U+5556, 啖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5556

[U+5555]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5557]
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Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
*l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
*l̥ʰaːmʔ
*l̥ʰaːmʔ
*l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
*l̥ʰaːms
*l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
*l̥ʰaːms
*l'aːm
*l'aːm
*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
*l'aːm
*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
*l'aːm
*l'aːm
*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
*l'aːms
*ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
*hljamʔ
*hljams
*ɦlam
*lamʔ
*lamʔ
*lamʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (7) (7)
Final () (143) (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14301 14306
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/

Definitions

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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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(dam) (hangeul , revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(dạm, đạm, giảm)

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