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Translingual

Han character

(radical 164 +5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一田廿一 (MWTM), four-corner 14670)

  1. rapturous, rapturously, soundly and comfortably
  2. (in connection with the drinking of alcohol) intoxicated, tipsy, drunk
  3. enjoying intoxicants

References

  • KangXi: page 1282, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39825
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1782, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3577, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9163

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
*kɯːms
*mɡaːm
*sɡaːmʔ, *kʰraːm
*kaːm
*kaːm
*kaːm
*kaːm
*kaːm, *kʰaːm
*ɢaːm, *ɢaːm
*ɢaːm
*ɢaːm
*ɢaːm
*ɡaːm, *ɡaːm
*ɡram
*ɡram
*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
*ɡram

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xan⁵⁵/
Harbin /xan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /xan²¹/
Jinan /xã²¹³/
Qingdao /xã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xan²⁴/
Xi'an /xã²¹/
Xining /xã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /xɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /xan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /xan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xan⁵⁵/
Kunming /xã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /xaŋ³¹/
Hefei /xæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /xæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /xɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /xæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /hø⁵³/
Suzhou /hø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /hẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /hø³³/
Hui Shexian /xɛ⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /xan³³/
Xiangtan /han³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian
Taoyuan /t͡sʰiɑm⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐm²¹/
Nanning /hɐm²¹/
Hong Kong /hɐm²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ham³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /haŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xaŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ham³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kam²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑm/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦam/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑm/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hān
Middle
Chinese
‹ ham ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤam/
English half-drunk

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. 3659
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢaːm/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(geom) (hangeul , revised geom, McCune-Reischauer kŏm, Yale kem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hàm, ham)