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檢

檢

See also: 检 and 検

Translingual

Traditional 檢
Shinjitai 検
Simplified 检

Han character

檢 (radical 75 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木人一人 (DOMO), four-corner 48986, composition ⿰木僉)

  1. to check
  2. examine

References

  • KangXi: page 557, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15684
  • Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1303, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6AA2

Chinese

trad. 檢
simp. 检

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 檢
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (僉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
厱 *raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
歛 *qʰlaːm
臉 *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
醶 *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
鹼 *kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
薟 *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
匳 *ɡ·ram
獫 *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
蘞 *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
籢 *ɡ·ram
斂 *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
瀲 *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
撿 *ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
羷 *ɡ·ramʔ
殮 *ɡ·rams
簽 *skʰlam
僉 *skʰlam
憸 *skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
譣 *skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
檢 *kramʔ
瞼 *kramʔ
儉 *ɡramʔ
顩 *ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
嬐 *ŋramʔ
嶮 *ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
噞 *ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
驗 *ŋrams
險 *qʰramʔ
劒 *kams
劍 *kams
𩏩 *qʰam

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kramʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 僉 ‎(OC *skʰlam).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 檢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 居奄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjiamX/
Li
Rong		 /kjɛmX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 檢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjemX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]r[a]mʔ/
English measure (n.)

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 檢
Reading # 1/1
No. 10209
Phonetic
component		 僉
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 檢
Old
Chinese		 /*kramʔ/

Definitions

檢

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Japanese

Kanji

檢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 検)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

檢 • ‎(geom) (hangeul 검, revised geom, McCune-Reischauer kŏm, Yale kem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

檢 (ghém, kiểm)

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