奄

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奄 U+5944, 奄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5944
← 奃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 奅 →

奄 U+FA7E, 奄
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA7E
← 墳
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 奔 →

Translingual

Han character

奄 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大中田山 (KLWU), four-corner 40716, composition ⿱大电(GTJKV) or ⿱大⿻日㇄(T))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 250, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5881
  • Dae Jaweon: page 510, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 534, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5944

Chinese

trad. 奄
simp. # 奄
alternative forms 闇／暗 suddenly

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 奄
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (奄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
庵 *qoːm, *qoːb
鵪 *qoːm
菴 *qoːm, *qrom
馣 *qoːm
晻 *qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
唵 *qoːmʔ
黤 *qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
埯 *qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
淹 *qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
閹 *qrom, *qromʔ
崦 *qrom
醃 *qrom, *qom
掩 *qromʔ
奄 *qromʔ
罨 *qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
裺 *qromʔ, *qoms
俺 *qromʔ, *qoms
腌 *qom, *qrob, *qob
殗 *qob
餣 *qob

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 大 (“big”) + 申 (“extend”) – to cover.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 奄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 衣儉切
Baxter 'jemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔjiamX/
Li
Rong 		/ʔjɛmX/
Wang
Li 		/ĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jim2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjemX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔ(r)omʔ/
English cover

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 奄
Reading # 1/1
No. 14344
Phonetic
component 		奄
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		奄
Old
Chinese 		/*qromʔ/

Definitions

奄

  1. † to cover; to surround; to include
  2. † suddenly; abruptly; quickly; hastily

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

奄

  1. † feeble
  2. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

奄

  1. † Alternative form of 閹／阉 (yān, “to castrate; eunuch”)
  2. † Alternative form of 淹 (yān, “to remain; to tarry”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

奄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. cover
  2. suffocate
  3. obstruct

Readings

Korean

Hanja

奄 • (eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune–Reischauer ŏm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奄: Hán Nôm readings: yêm, yểm, ăm, im, em

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References

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