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Translingual

Han character

(radical 203 +11, 23 strokes, cangjie input 田火戈戈竹 (WFIIH), four-corner 63322)

  1. grey black
  2. light bluish dark

References

  • KangXi: page 1521, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48189
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2056, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4755, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9EF2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːms
*sʰluːm, *sʰluːms, *sloːm, *sʰrum, *srum
*sʰluːm
*sʰluːm, *sʰluːmʔ
*sʰluːmʔ
*sʰluːmʔ, *sʰloːmʔ
*sʰluːms
毿 *sluːm
*sluːm, *srum
*sluːm, *sru, *srɯu
*sluːmʔ
*sluːmʔ, *sʰrum, *srum, *srumʔ
*sloːm
*sruːm, *sruːmʔ
*sruːmʔ, *sʰrumʔ
縿 *sroːm
*sroːm
*sʰrum
*sʰrumʔ
*sʰrumʔ
*srum
*srumʔ
*srums

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (14) (14)
Final () (159) (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰʌmX/ /t͡sʰɑmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰəmX/ /t͡sʰɑmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɒmX/ /t͡sʰɑmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰəmX/ /t͡sʰamX/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰᴀmX/ /t͡sʰɑmX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɒmX/ /t͡sʰɑmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰămX/ /t͡sʰɑmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cǎn cǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1085 1096
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰluːmʔ/ /*sʰloːmʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: さん (san)
  • Kun: うすあおぐろい (usuaoguroi)

Korean

Hanja

(cham) (hangeul , revised cham, McCune-Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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