戡

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戡 U+6221, 戡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6221
← 戠
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 戢 →

Translingual

Han character

戡 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈 (TVI), four-corner 43750, composition ⿰甚戈)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 413, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11616
  • Dae Jaweon: page 756, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1408, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6221

Chinese

trad. 戡
simp. # 戡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戡
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (甚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湛 *ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um
媅 *ʔl'uːm
黮 *l̥ʰuːmʔ, *l'uːmʔ
糂 *sluːmʔ
堪 *kʰluːm
戡 *kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ
嵁 *kʰluːm, *ŋɡluːm, *ŋɡluːmʔ, *sɡruːmʔ, *kʰruːm
歁 *kʰluːmʔ, *kʰluːb
勘 *kʰluːms
磡 *kʰuːms
墈 *kʰuːms
偡 *r'uːmʔ
碪 *ʔl'um
椹 *ʔl'um
揕 *ʔl'ums
踸 *l̥ʰumʔ
鍖 *l̥ʰumʔ
斟 *kljum
諶 *ɡljum
愖 *ɡljum
瘎 *ɡljum
煁 *ɡljum
甚 *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums
葚 *ɦljumʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ): phonetic 甚 (OC *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums) + semantic 戈 (“dagger-axe”)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kum (“to kill”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 戡
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 口含切
Baxter khom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰəm/
Li
Rong 		/kʰᴀm/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɒm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ham1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 戡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khom ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁm/
English kill

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 戡
Reading # 1/2
No. 11272
Phonetic
component 		甚
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		龕
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰluːm/

Definitions

戡

  1. to subjugate; to subdue; to quell
    alt. forms: 龕 / 龛 (kān)

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 戡
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 張甚切
Baxter trimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʈˠiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈᵚimX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȶiemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈjimX/
Li
Rong 		/ȶjəmX/
Wang
Li 		/ȶĭĕmX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȶi̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhěn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zam2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 戡
Reading # 2/2
No. 11286
Phonetic
component 		甚
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		戡
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔl'umʔ/

Definitions

戡

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Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

戡

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 揕 (zhèn)

References

Japanese

Kanji

戡

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. victory

Readings

  • On (unclassified): かん (kan)、ちん (chin)
  • Kun: かつ (katsu)

Korean

Hanja

戡 • (gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune–Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

  1. subjugate
  2. subdue, quell
  3. kill

Vietnamese

Han character

戡: Hán Nôm readings: kham

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References

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