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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 151 +21, 28 strokes, cangjie input 山廿土戈廿 (UTGIT), four-corner 54117, composition)

  1. plump, voluptuous, beautiful

References

  • KangXi: page 1194, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36332
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1656, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3570, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8C54

Chinese

trad. /
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lams
*lams

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lams) : semantic  (abundant, great) + phonetic  (corrupted to ). The original variant is .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (153)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiᴇmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/jiɛmH/
Shao
Rongfen
/jæmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jiamH/
Li
Rong
/iɛmH/
Wang
Li
/jĭɛmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯ɛmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14470
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lams/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings