檻

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See also: 槛
檻 U+6ABB, 檻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ABB
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 檼 →

Translingual

Han character

檻 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 木尸戈廿 (DSIT) or 木尸一廿 (DSMT), four-corner 48917, composition ⿰木監)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 558, character 47
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15745
  • Dae Jaweon: page 948, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1307, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+6ABB

Chinese

trad. 檻
simp. 槛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (監) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藍 *ɡ·raːm
襤 *ɡ·raːm
籃 *ɡ·raːm
懢 *ɡ·raːm, *ɡ·raːms
儖 *ɡ·raːm
蘫 *ɡ·raːm, *qʰlaːms
攬 *ɡ·raːmʔ
欖 *ɡ·raːmʔ
覽 *ɡ·raːmʔ
爁 *ɡ·raːmʔ, *ɡ·raːms, *ɡ·rams
擥 *ɡ·raːmʔ
灠 *ɡ·raːmʔ
濫 *ɡ·raːms, *ɡraːmʔ
嚂 *ɡ·raːms, *kʰlaːms, *qʰlaːmʔ
纜 *ɡ·raːms
監 *kraːm, *kraːms
礛 *kraːm
鑑 *kraːm, *kraːms, *kraːms
艦 *ɡraːmʔ
檻 *ɡraːmʔ, *ɡraːms
壏 *ɡraːmʔ
轞 *ɡraːmʔ
鹽 *ɡ·lam, *ɡ·lams

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡraːmʔ, *ɡraːms) : semantic 木 + phonetic 監 (OC *kraːm, *kraːms).

Etymology 1

Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kram (“fence, garden”). Cognate with Burmese ခြံ (hkram, “fence; garden; to surround”). Also compare Tibetan ཁྲམ (khram, “notched wood”) (> ཁྲམ་ཁ (khram kha, “cut, notch ”), ཁྲམ་ཤིང (khram shing, “tallystick”)).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 檻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 銜 (149)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡黤切
Baxter haemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠamX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚamX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣamX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦaɨmX/
Li
Rong 		/ɣamX/
Wang
Li 		/ɣamX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣamX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		haam6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 檻 檻 檻
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiàn jiàn jiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hæmX › ‹ hæmX › ‹ hamX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁramʔ/ /*ˁramʔ/ /*ˁamʔ/
English straight-jetted (water) railing; cage railing; cage

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 檻 檻
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6110 6114
Phonetic
component 		監 監
Rime
group 		談 談
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		檻 㽉
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡraːmʔ/ /*ɡraːms/
Notes 原文木在下，集韻注或書檻
Definitions

檻

  1. fence
  2. cage (for animal or prisoner)
  3. railing; balustrade
  4. (alt. form 轞／𰺗) prisoner transport cart
  5. Alternative form of 艦 / 舰 (jiàn, “warship”)
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

檻

  1. doorsill
    門檻／门槛  ―  ménkǎn  ―  doorsill
Synonyms
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 檻 – see 𨈇 (“to step over; to step across”).
(This character is a variant form of 𨈇).

References

Japanese

Kanji

檻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
檻
おり
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Compounds

Noun

檻(おり) • (ori) ←をり (wori)?

  1. cage; cell
    • 1936, Unno Jūza, Chikyū Tōnan [Globe Theft]‎:
      その第(だい)四(よん)号(ごう)の檻(おり)の中(なか)には、一(いっ)体(たい)どんな生(い)き物(もの)が入(はい)っていたのだろうか？
      Sono dai-yongō no ori no naka ni wa, ittai donna ikimono ga haitteita no darō ka?
      Exactly what kind of animal was within the fourth cage?

Korean

Hanja

檻 (eum 함 (ham))

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Vietnamese

Han character

檻: Hán Nôm readings: giám, hạm, hậm, tràm, cạm

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