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燂

燂

Translingual

Han character

燂 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火一田十 (FMWJ), four-corner 91846)

  1. smoke, fumes
  2. tobacco, opium

References

  • KangXi: page 682, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19391
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2232, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+71C2

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 燂
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (覃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鷣 *luː, *lɯm
撢 *l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛 *l̥ʰɯːms
潭 *l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃 *l'ɯːm
鐔 *l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫 *l'ɯːm
橝 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫 *l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂 *l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫 *l'ɯːmʔ
嘾 *l'ɯːmʔ
贉 *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫 *l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈 *zlɯmʔ
鱏 *ljɯm, *lɯm
簟 *l'ɯːmʔ
驔 *l'ɯːmʔ
磹 *l'ɯːms

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 燂

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燂 燂
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 覃 (159) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 徒含切 昨鹽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dʌm/ /d͡ziᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəm/ /d͡ziɛm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɒm/ /d͡zjæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəm/ /d͡ziam/
Li
Rong		 /dᴀm/ /d͡ziɛm/
Wang
Li		 /dɒm/ /d͡zĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱăm/ /d͡zʱi̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán qián
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燂 燂
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qián xún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjem › ‹ dom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sə-lom/ /*[l]ˤom/
English heat; roast; boil (meat) to heat

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 燂 燂 燂
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 12325 12335 12339
Phonetic
component		 覃 覃 覃
Rime
group		 侵 談 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 覃 潛
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯːm/ /*zlom/ /*ljum/

Definitions

燂

  1. (Shanghai) to simmer with low heat
  2. (Shanghai) to simmer slowly

Derived terms
  • 燂爍／燂烁

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 燂 – see 燖.
(This character, 燂, is a variant form of 燖.)

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