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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 203 +13, 25 strokes, cangjie input 田火弓金口 (WFNCR), four-corner 67361)

  1. to tattoo the face

References

  • KangXi: page 1522, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48215
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2057, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4756, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+9EF5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
*taːm, *taːms
*ʔl'aːm
*taːm
*taːmʔ
*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
*daːmʔ, *daːms
*tjam
*tjam
*tjam, *djam
*tjam
*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
*tʰjam, *tʰjams
*tʰjam, *tʰjams
*tʰjams
*djams
*lam
*lam
*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Pronunciation


Hanzi

  1. to tattoo the face

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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