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添

添

Translingual

Han character

添 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水竹大心 (EHKP) or 水一大心 (EMKP), four-corner 32133, composition ⿰氵忝)

  1. append, add to
  2. increase

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 632, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17698
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1639, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6DFB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 添

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
添 *tʰiːm
忝 *l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms
悿 *tʰiːmʔ
舔 *l̥ʰiːmʔ
菾 *diːm
天 *qʰl'iːn
吞 *qʰl'iːn, *qʰl'ɯːn
祆 *qʰliːn
蚕 *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰiːm) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 忝 ‎(OC *l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms) – to increase by pouring more water in.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 添
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 他兼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰem/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰem/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɛm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛm/
Li
Rong		 /tʰem/
Wang
Li		 /tʰiem/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰiem/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tiān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 添
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ them ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤ[i]m/
English add

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 添
Reading # 1/1
No. 12381
Phonetic
component		 天
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 添
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰiːm/

Verb

添

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Particle

添

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Japanese

Kanji

添

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: てん (ten)
  • Kun: そえる (soeru), そえ (soe) ( (historical) そへ (sohe) ), そう (sou)

Korean

Hanja

添 • ‎(cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

添 (thêm, thiêm, thếch)

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