漸

漸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水十十中 (EJJL), four-corner 3212₁, composition ⿰氵斬)

• 壍(𰊢) 嬱 聻(𫆏) 䤔 魙
• 𡽻 𦾶(𬞋) 𭟌 𣋫 𥜙 𨮜 𩉍(𬰣) 𩟗(𫗚)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 647, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18179
• Dae Jaweon: page 1057, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1717, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6F38

Historical forms of the character 漸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsam, *zamʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 斬 (OC *ʔsreːmʔ).

Compare Khmer ជាំ (cŏəm, “wet; soaked; steeped”) (Schuessler, 2007).

漸

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Qiantang River
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to advance gradually

   • 善漸於惡，惡化於善，成為性行
     善渐于恶，恶化于善，成为性行

     From: Wang Chong, Lun Heng (Discussive Weighing), 80 CE

     shàn jiàn yú è, è huà yú shàn, chéngwéi xìngxíng

     It is by the transition of virtue into wickedness and of wickedness into virtue that the characters are formed.

3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) gradual process
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of an illness) to aggravate; to worsen
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to dredge; to open a path
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) omen
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) condition; prerequisite
8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sequence; order
9. gradually

   • 滿而後漸者，其水乎？
     满而后渐者，其水乎？

     From: Yang Xiong, Fa Yan (Exemplary Sayings), 9 CE

     Mǎn ér hòu jiàn zhě, qí shuǐ hū?

     That which fills up and then flows out gradually, is it not water?

10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) just when
11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately; soon after
12. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) when; until
13. 53rd hexagram of the I Ching
14. a surname

漸

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to flow into
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to bedew
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to soak
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to moisten
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to influence
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to cheat

漸

1. (Teochew) just; just now

(Jōyō kanji)

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• Go-on: せん (sen)、ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kan’yō-on: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• On: ざん (zan)
• Kun: ようやく (yōyaku, 漸く)^{←やうやく (yauyaku, 漸く, historical)}、やっと (yatto, 漸と)^{←やつと (yatuto, 漸と, historical)}、ようよう (yōyou, 漸う)^{←やうやう (yauyau, 漸う, historical)}、ようやく (yōyaku, 漸やく)^{←やうやく (yauyaku, 漸やく, historical)}、すすむ (susumu, 漸む)

漸 • (jeom, cham) (hangeul 점, 참, revised jeom, cham, McCune–Reischauer chŏm, ch'am, Yale cem, cham)

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漸: Hán Nôm readings: tiệm, tràn, tiêm, tiềm

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