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Translingual

Han character

(radical 190 +5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹土月 (SHGB), four-corner 72557)

  1. beard
  2. mustache

References

  • KangXi: page 1453, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45404
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1984, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4522, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9AEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls
*naːl
*naːlʔ
*noːm, *njam, *njamʔ
*noːm
*n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm
*n̥ʰaːm, *njam
*n̥ʰaːm
*njam, *njams
*njam
*njam
*njam, *njamʔ
*njam
*njamʔ
*njamʔ, *neːmʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (38) (38)
Final () (153) (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiᴇm/ /ȵiᴇmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɛm/ /ȵiɛmH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjæm/ /ȵʑjæmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵiam/ /ȵiamH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiɛm/ /ȵiɛmH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭɛm/ /ȵʑĭɛmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ɛm/ /ȵʑi̯ɛmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rán ràn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rán
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyem ›
Old
Chinese
/*nam/
English whiskers

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. 10777 10788
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
𩓾
Old
Chinese
/*njam/ /*njams/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 一字髯
  • 掀髯
  • 揚眉奮髯扬眉奋髯
  • 碧眼紫髯
  • 禮髯礼髯
  • 美髯公
  • 蒼髯苍髯
  • 虯髯虬髯
  • 虯髯客虬髯客
  • 虯髯客傳虬髯客传
  • 關羽髯关羽髯
  • 髯口
  • 髯毛
  • 髯蛇
  • 鬚髯如戟须髯如戟
  • 鬢髯如漆鬓髯如漆

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana ひげ, romaji hige)

  1. mustache; beards; whiskers

Korean

Hanja

(yeom) (hangeul , revised yeom, McCune-Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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