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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓金 (OINC), four-corner 80806, composition)

  1. greedy, covet
  2. covetous

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.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰluːm'
*l̥ʰuːmʔ
*l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
*qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
*qʰɯːm
*qʰɯːm
*qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
*ɡɯːms
*ɡɯːms
*qɯːm, *qaːb
*qɯːm, *qrɯːms
*krɯːm
*qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
*qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
*ɡram
*ɡram
*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
*nɯːms
*sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
*sɢrɯm
*sɡrɯm
*sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
*sɡrɯm
*ɡjɯms
*krɯm
*krɯm
*krɯm
*kʰrɯm
*kʰrɯmʔ
*kʰrɯms
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯms
*ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
*ŋɡrɯm
*qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
*qrɯm
*qrɯm
*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
*qrɯms
*qrɯms
*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6552
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰluːm'/

Definitions

  1. greedy
  2. to be fond of; to be preoccupied with; to do sth excessively

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(tam) (hangeul , revised tam, McCune-Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tham)

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