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沾

沾

沾 U+6CBE, 沾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CBE
← 沽
[U+6CBD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 沿 →
[U+6CBF]
See also: 霑

Translingual

Han character

沾 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水卜口 (EYR), four-corner 31160, composition ⿰氵占)

  1. moisten, wet, soak
  2. to touch

References

  • KangXi: page 614, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17259
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1008, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1583, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6CBE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 沾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (占) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
頕 *taːm
煔 *ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶 *ɦlaːm
詀 *rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站 *rteːms
檆 *sreːm
黏 *nem
粘 *nem
枮 *slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑 *tem
沾 *tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘 *tems, *tʰem
鉆 *tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占 *ʔljem, *tjems
颭 *tjemʔ
佔 *tjems, *teːm
苫 *hljem, *hljems
痁 *hljem, *teːms
蛅 *njem
阽 *lem
敁 *teːm
掂 *tiːm
點 *teːmʔ
玷 *teːmʔ, *teːms
店 *tiːms
坫 *tiːms, *tim
黇 *tʰeːm
扂 *deːmʔ
拈 *neːm
鮎 *neːm
砧 *ʔl'ɯm
笘 *teːb
跕 *teːb, *tʰeːb
貼 *tʰeːb
帖 *tʰeːb
怗 *tʰeːb
呫 *tʰeːb

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 沾
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂan⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂan²¹/
/t͡san²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂã²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂan²⁴/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂã²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡san⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡san⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡san⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sø⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷõ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕie³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂə̃³³/
Xiangtan /t͡san³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sam⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃɑm²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sim⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sim⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sim⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sam³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sieŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /niŋ⁵⁴/
/t͡siŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tiam³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tiam²³/
Rime
Character 沾 沾 沾
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 知 (9) 透 (6) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154) 添 (157) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III IV IV
Fanqie 張廉切 他兼切 都念切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈˠiᴇm/ /tʰem/ /temH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈᵚiɛm/ /tʰem/ /temH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶiæm/ /tʰɛm/ /tɛmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈjiam/ /tʰɛm/ /tɛmH/
Li
Rong		 /ȶjɛm/ /tʰem/ /temH/
Wang
Li		 /ȶĭɛm/ /tʰiem/ /tiemH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶi̯ɛm/ /tʰiem/ /tiemH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhān tiān diàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 沾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trjem ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]rem/
English moisten

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 沾 沾 沾
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 16702 16725 16728
Phonetic
component		 占 占 占
Rime
group		 談 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 霑 店 添
Old
Chinese		 /*tem/ /*teːms/ /*tʰeːm/

Definitions

沾

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Japanese

Kanji

沾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

沾 • ‎(cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沾 (chăm, trèm, triêm, chem, thêm)

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