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Translingual

Han character

(radical 163 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿一弓中 (TMNL), four-corner 47727, composition ⿰甘)

  1. Handan (邯鄲), a city in the southwestern part of Hebei province, in northern China
  2. various

References

  • KangXi: page 1269, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39330
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3761, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+90AF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯːms
*mɡaːm
*sɡaːmʔ, *kʰraːm
*kaːm
*kaːm
*kaːm
*kaːm
*kaːm, *kʰaːm
*ɢaːm, *ɢaːm
*ɢaːm
*ɢaːm
*ɢaːm
*ɡaːm, *ɡaːm
*ɡram
*ɡram
*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
*ɡram

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (61) (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑn/ /ɦɑm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑn/ /ɦɑm/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦan/ /ɦam/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑm/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑn/ /ɣɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hán hán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hán hán
Middle
Chinese
‹ ham › ‹ han ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤam/ /*[ɡ]ˤa[n]/
English 邯鄲 han.tan (placename) 邯鄲 han.tan (placename)

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 3663 3669
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːm/ /*ɡaːm/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(han, ham) (hangeul , , revised han, ham, McCune-Reischauer han, ham, Yale han, ham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hàm)

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