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Translingual

Han character

(radical 212 +6, 22 strokes, cangjie input 人口卜月心 (ORYBP), four-corner 80211, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1537, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48839
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2078, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4805, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+9F95

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰuːm
*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
*tkuːb
*tkuːb
*tkuːb
*tuːb, *tʰoːb
*tuːb, *toːb
*tuːb
*tuːb, *tʰoːb
*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
*kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
*kuːb, *ɡuːb
*kuːb, *ɡuːb
*kuːb, *kʰuːb
*kuːb
*kuːb
*kuːb, *kruːb
*kuːb, *kruːb
*kuːb
*ŋɡuːb
*quːb, *quːb
*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
*ɡuːb
*ɡuːb
*ɡuːb
*tʰuːb
*tʰoːb
*rtuːb
*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
*kruːb, *ŋkob
*kruːb
*kʰruːb
*kʰruːb
*ɡruːb
*ɡruːb
*ɡruːb
*ɡruːb
*qʰjob, *qʰrub
*tkʰub
*ɡjub
*krub
*qʰrub
*qʰrub
*qʰrub
*qʰrub
*qʰrub
*qʰrub
*qʰrub

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəm/
Li
Rong
/kʰᴀm/
Wang
Li
/kʰɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4940
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰuːm/

Definitions

  1. shrine

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
がん
Hyōgaiji
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese .

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana がん, romaji gan)

  1. alcove for an image

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(gam) (hangeul , revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

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