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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月山弓金口 (BUNCR), four-corner 67061)

  1. look
  2. look out for
  3. respect

References

  • KangXi: page 818, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23742
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1230, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2518, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+77BB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script 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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɛm/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciam/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiɛm/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhān
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyem ›
Old
Chinese
/*[t.q]am/
English see, look at

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 16760
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjam/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 具瞻
  • 前瞻性
  • 失瞻
  • 定步觀瞻定步观瞻
  • 就日瞻雲就日瞻云
  • 屋上瞻烏屋上瞻乌
  • 心瞻魏闕心瞻魏阙
  • 有礙觀瞻有碍观瞻
  • 望杏瞻榆
  • 望杏瞻蒲
  • 極切瞻韓极切瞻韩
  • 眾所瞻望众所瞻望
  • 眾目具瞻众目具瞻
  • 瞻仰 (zhānyǎng)
  • 瞻依
  • 瞻前忽後瞻前忽后
  • 瞻前顧後瞻前顾后
  • 瞻卬
  • 瞻天戀闕瞻天恋阙
  • 瞻彼洛矣
  • 瞻徇
  • 瞻念
  • 瞻情顧意瞻情顾意
  • 瞻拜
  • 瞻望 (zhānwàng)
  • 瞻烏瞻乌
  • 瞻眺
  • 瞻禮瞻礼
  • 瞻謁瞻谒
  • 瞻識瞻识
  • 瞻顧瞻顾
  • 觀瞻观瞻
  • 陟岵瞻望
  • 顧後瞻前顾后瞻前
  • 馬首是瞻马首是瞻
  • 高瞻遠矚高瞻远瞩

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“(Min Nan) to glance”).
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chiêm)

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