喑

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喑 U+5591, 喑
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Translingual

Han character

喑 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口卜廿日 (RYTA), four-corner 60061, composition ⿰口音)

  1. the sobbing of infants
  2. cry ceaselessly
  3. mute, dumb

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 198, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3934
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 659, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5591

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 喑
alternative forms 瘖
噾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
諳 *qɯːm
腤 *qɯːm
嬜 *qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑 *qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞 *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌 *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯 *qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗 *qɯːms
闇 *qɯːms
黯 *qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆 *qʰrɯm
愔 *qɯm
韾 *qɯm
音 *qrɯm
瘖 *qrɯm
窨 *qrɯms
湆 *kʰrɯb

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 喑 喑 喑
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侵 (140) 覃 (159) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III I III
Fanqie 於金切 烏含切 於禁切
Baxter 'im 'om 'imH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠiɪm/ /ʔʌm/ /ʔˠiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚim/ /ʔəm/ /ʔᵚimH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiem/ /ʔɒm/ /ʔiemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔjim/ /ʔəm/ /ʔjimH/
Li
Rong 		/ʔjəm/ /ʔᴀm/ /ʔjəmH/
Wang
Li 		/ĭĕm/ /ɒm/ /ĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯əm/ /ʔăm/ /ʔi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yīn ān yìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jam1 am1 jam3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喑 喑 喑
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 15209 15226 15228
Phonetic
component 		音 音 音
Rime
group 		侵 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision 		1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		諳 音 蔭
Old
Chinese 		/*qɯːm/ /*qrɯm/ /*qrɯms/

Definitions

喑

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Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 喑 – see 瘖 (“mute; dumb; speechless”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 瘖).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji

喑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to be dumb
  2. the sobbing of infants

Readings

Korean

Hanja

喑 • (eum) (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune–Reischauer ŭm)

  1. deaf mute
  2. cry ceaselessly

Tày

Noun

喑 (ám)

  1. Nôm form of ám (“sound, place”).

Vietnamese

Han character

喑: Hán Nôm readings: ầm

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Zhuang

Adjective

喑

  1. Sawndip form of imq (“full; satiated”)

Verb

喑

  1. Sawndip form of imq (“to be full; to be satiated”)
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