曇

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See also: 昙
曇 U+66C7, 曇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66C7
← 曆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 曈 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

曇 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日一月戈 (AMBI), four-corner 60731, composition ⿱日雲)

  1. become cloudy, overcast

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 500, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 870, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1536, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+66C7

Chinese

trad. 曇
simp. 昙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
曇 *duːm
壜 *duːm

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 日 + 雲, presumably “sun behind clouds”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 曇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒含切
Baxter dom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dʌm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dəm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dəm/
Li
Rong 		/dᴀm/
Wang
Li 		/dɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		taam4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 曇
Reading # 1/1
No. 12353
Phonetic
component 		曇
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		覃
Old
Chinese 		/*duːm/
Notes 與黕同源

Definitions

曇

  1. † cloudy; overcast
  2. Used in 曇花／昙花 (tánhuā, “Dutchman's pipe cactus”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

曇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. cloudy weather
  2. cloud up

Readings

Derived terms

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

曇 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曇: Hán Nôm readings: đàm

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