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湎

湎

Translingual

Han character

湎 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水一田中 (EMWL), four-corner 3116₀)

flushed with drink, drunk

References

KangXi: page 636, character 26

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17826

Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 24

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1672, character 3

Unihan data for U+6E4E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		湎

Alternative forms

𩈳

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): miǎn (mian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: miǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade-Giles: mien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: min⁵
  - Yale: míhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: min⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /miːn¹³/

Middle Chinese: /miᴇn^X/▼

Rime
Character	湎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彌兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mian^X/
Li Rong	/miɛn^X/
Wang Li	/mĭɛn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*menʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*menʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	湎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ mjien^X ›
Old Chinese	/*menʔ/
English	sink in (wine)
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	湎
Reading #	1/1
No.	9094
Phonetic component	面
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	緬
Old Chinese	/*menʔ/

Definitions

湎

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Japanese

Kanji

湎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: べん (ben), めん (men)

Kun: おぼれる (oboreru), しずむ (shizumu)

Korean

Hanja

湎 • ‎(myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune-Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

湎 (giờn)

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