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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 手弓口戈 (QNRI), four-corner 57013, composition)

  1. to give a helping hand
  2. to support, hold up

References

  • KangXi: page 463, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 812, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1984, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+6519

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm
*zrɯːm, *zraːms
*zrɯːm
*zrɯːm, *zraːm
*zrɯːm, *zraːms
*zrɯːm, *sʰraːm
*zrɯːm, *zrɯːms, *sʰraːms
*zrɯːm
*zrɯːmʔ
*sʰraːms, *zraːm, *zlamʔ
*zraːm, *zraːmʔ
*zraːm
*zraːm, *zraːms
*zraːm, *zraːms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (20) (19)
Final () (151) (149)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʒˠɛm/ /t͡ʃʰˠam/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖ͡ʐᵚæm/ /ʈ͡ʂʰᵚam/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʒɐm/ /t͡ʃʰam/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖ͡ʐəɨm/ /ʈ͡ʂʰaɨm/
Li
Rong
/d͡ʒɐm/ /t͡ʃʰam/
Wang
Li
/d͡ʒɐm/ /t͡ʃʰam/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɖ͡ʐʱăm/ /ʈ͡ʂʰam/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chán chān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1225 1230
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zrɯːm/ /*sʰraːm/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. give helping hand

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. to give a helping hand
  2. to support, hold up

Vietnamese

Han character

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