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貪
貪
See also: 贪
Translingual
Han character
貪 (radical 154 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓金 (OINC), four-corner 80806, composition ⿱今貝)
References
- KangXi: page 1205, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36680
- Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3627, character 7
- Unihan data for U+8CAA
Chinese
| trad. | 貪 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 贪 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 貪
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| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 貪 | *kʰluːm' |
| 嗿 | *l̥ʰuːmʔ |
| 僋 | *l̥ʰuːms, *luːms |
| 酓 | *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms |
| 馠 | *qʰɯːm |
| 谽 | *qʰɯːm |
| 唅 | *qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms |
| 含 | *ɡɯːm |
| 肣 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 頷 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 筨 | *ɡɯːm |
| 梒 | *ɡɯːm |
| 鋡 | *ɡɯːm |
| 莟 | *ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms |
| 琀 | *ɡɯːms |
| 浛 | *ɡɯːms |
| 盦 | *qɯːm, *qaːb |
| 韽 | *qɯːm, *qrɯːms |
| 玪 | *krɯːm |
| 妗 | *qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms |
| 欦 | *qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm |
| 黔 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 鈐 | *ɡram |
| 鳹 | *ɡram |
| 雂 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 念 | *nɯːms |
| 梣 | *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm |
| 枔 | *sɢrɯm |
| 岑 | *sɡrɯm |
| 笒 | *sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms |
| 涔 | *sɡrɯm |
| 侺 | *ɡjɯms |
| 今 | *krɯm |
| 黅 | *krɯm |
| 衿 | *krɯm |
| 衾 | *kʰrɯm |
| 坅 | *kʰrɯmʔ |
| 搇 | *kʰrɯms |
| 琴 | *ɡrɯm |
| 禽 | *ɡrɯm |
| 芩 | *ɡrɯm |
| 庈 | *ɡrɯm |
| 耹 | *ɡrɯm |
| 靲 | *ɡrɯm |
| 擒 | *ɡrɯm |
| 檎 | *ɡrɯm |
| 紟 | *ɡrɯms |
| 吟 | *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms |
| 訡 | *ŋɡrɯm |
| 廞 | *qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ |
| 陰 | *qrɯm |
| 霠 | *qrɯm |
| 飲 | *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms |
| 蔭 | *qrɯms |
| 廕 | *qrɯms |
| 矜 | *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄢ
- Wade-Giles: t'an1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tan
- IPA (key): /tʰa̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: taam1
- Yale: tāam
- Cantonese Pinyin: taam1
- IPA (key): /tʰɑːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâm
- Hakka Romanization System: tam´
- Hagfa Pinyim: tam1
- IPA: /tʰam²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham
- Tâi-lô: tham
- Phofsit Daibuun: tafm
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰam⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 貪 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /tʰan⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /tʰan⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /tʰan²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /tʰã²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /tʰã²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /tʰan²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /tʰã²¹/ | |
| Xining | /tʰã⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /tʰan⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /tʰɛ̃n³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /tʰan⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /tʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /tʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /tʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /tʰã̠⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /tʰaŋ³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /tʰæ̃²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /tʰæ̃¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /tɑŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /tʰæ̃³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /tʰø⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /tʰø⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /tʰẽ̞³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /tʰø³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /tʰɛ³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /tʰɔ¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /tʰan³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /tʰan³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /tʰɵn⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /tʰam⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /tʰɑm²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /tʰam⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /tʰam⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /tʰam⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /tʰam⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /tʰaŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /tʰaŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /tʰam³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ham²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 貪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 透 (6) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 他含切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/tʰʌm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/tʰəm/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/tʰɒm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/tʰəm/ |
| Li Rong |
/tʰᴀm/ |
| Wang Li |
/tʰɒm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/tʰăm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
tān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 貪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6552 |
| Phonetic component |
今 |
| Rime group |
侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
探 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰluːm'/ |
Definitions
貪
- greedy
- to be fond of; to be preoccupied with; to do sth excessively
Compounds
Derived terms from 貪
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Japanese
Kanji
貪
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Readings
- Goon: とん (ton) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: たん (tan) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’yōon: どん (don)
- Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)
Korean
Hanja
貪 • (tam) (hangeul 탐, revised tam, McCune-Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)
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Vietnamese
Han character
貪 (tham)
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