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覃

覃

Translingual

Han character

覃 (radical 146 西+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一田日十 (MWAJ), four-corner 10406, composition ⿱覀早)

  1. reach to, spread to
  2. extensive

References

  • KangXi: page 1128, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34778
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1598, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2807, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8983

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 覃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 覃
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (覃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鷣 *luː, *lɯm
撢 *l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛 *l̥ʰɯːms
潭 *l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃 *l'ɯːm
鐔 *l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫 *l'ɯːm
橝 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫 *l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂 *l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫 *l'ɯːmʔ
嘾 *l'ɯːmʔ
贉 *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫 *l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈 *zlɯmʔ
鱏 *ljɯm, *lɯm
簟 *l'ɯːmʔ
驔 *l'ɯːmʔ
磹 *l'ɯːms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 覃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəm/
Li
Rong		 /dᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /dɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 覃 覃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tán yǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dom › ‹ yemX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N.rˤ[o]m/ /*N-r[a]mʔ/
English extend, spread pointed, sharp

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 覃
Reading # 1/1
No. 12320
Phonetic
component		 覃
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 覃
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯːm/

Definitions

覃

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Japanese

Kanji

覃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. deep, extend, large

Readings

Korean

Hanja

覃 • ‎(dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

覃 (đàm)

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