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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木十月十 (DJBJ), four-corner 44927, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 540, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15152
  • Dae Jaweon: page 927, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1244, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6960

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nuːm
*nuːm
*nuːmʔ
*nuːmʔ
*nuːmʔ
*nuːmʔ
*ruːmʔ
*rnuːm
*rnuːm, *rnuːms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (8)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəm/
Li
Rong
/nᴀm/
Wang
Li
/nɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/năm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9356
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːm/
Notes

Definitions

  1. name of a treeMachilus nanmu (sometimes classified as Persea nanmu)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. camphor tree

Readings

Noun

(hiragana くすのき, katakana クスノキ, romaji kusunoki)

  1. camphor tree

Synonyms

Proper noun

(hiragana くす, romaji Kusu)

  1. A surname.

Korean

Hanja

(nam) (hangeul , revised nam, McCune-Reischauer nam, Yale nam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nêm, nam)

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