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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈廿金 (HITC), four-corner 88237)

  1. a blind, screen, curtain

References

  • KangXi: page 902, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26616
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1327, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3022, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7C3E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*r'eːms
*r'eːms
*kreːm
*kreːmʔ
*kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
*kʰreːmʔ
*ɡreːm, *keːm
*ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
*ɡ·rem
*ɡ·rem
*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
*ɡ·rem
*ɡ·rem
*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
*ɡ·rem
*ɡ·remʔ
*ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
*kʰremʔ
*ŋɡremʔ
*ɡ·reːm
*ɡ·reːm
*ɡ·reːm
*keːm, *keːms
*keːm
*keːm
*keːm
*keːm
*kʰeːm
*kʰeːmʔ
*kʰeːmʔ
*kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
*kʰeːms
*qʰeːm
*ɡeːm
*ɡeːmʔ
*kreːm

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun
/liɛm/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/liam/
Li
Rong
/liɛm/
Wang
Li
/lĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lián
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lián
Middle
Chinese
‹ ljem ›
Old
Chinese
/*rem/
English bamboo curtain

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 # 1/1
No. 6046
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·rem/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(ryeom>yeom) (hangeul 렴>, revised ryeom>yeom, McCune-Reischauer ryŏm>yŏm, Yale lyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(liêm)

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