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Translingual

Han character

(radical 146 西+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一田日十 (MWAJ), four-corner 10406, composition)

  1. reach to, spread to
  2. extensive

References

  • KangXi: page 1128, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34778
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1598, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2807, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8983

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*luː, *lɯm
*l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
*l̥ʰɯːms
*l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
*l'ɯːm
*l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
*l'ɯːm
*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
*l'ɯːm, *lɯm
*l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
*l'ɯːmʔ
*l'ɯːmʔ
*l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
*l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
*zlɯmʔ
*ljɯm, *lɯm
*l'ɯːmʔ
*l'ɯːmʔ
*l'ɯːms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəm/
Li
Rong
/dᴀm/
Wang
Li
/dɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tán yǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ dom › ‹ yemX ›
Old
Chinese
/*N.rˤ[o]m/ /*N-r[a]mʔ/
English extend, spread pointed, sharp

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. 12320
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ɯːm/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. deep, extend, large

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(dam) (hangeul , revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đàm)

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References