痰

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痰 U+75F0, 痰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75F0
← 痯
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 痱 →

Translingual

Han character

痰 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大火火 (KFF), four-corner 00189, composition ⿸疒炎)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 774, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22251
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1185, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2682, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+75F0

Chinese

trad. 痰
simp. # 痰
alternative forms 淡 classical
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 痰 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 痰 (Cantonese)
  • tàng (Eastern Min)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aːm) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 痰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒甘切
Baxter dam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dɑm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dɑm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dam/
Li
Rong 		/dɑm/
Wang
Li 		/dɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		taam4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 痰
Reading # 1/1
No. 14297
Phonetic
component 		炎
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		談
Old
Chinese 		/*l'aːm/

Definitions

痰

  1. phlegm; sputum (Classifier: 口 m; 篤／笃 c; 啖 c)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 痰 (“phlegm; sputum”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 痰
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 痰
Singapore 痰
Cantonese Hong Kong 痰
Taishan 痰
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 痰
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 痰
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 痰
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 痰
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 痰
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 痰
Southern Min Tainan 痰
Penang (Hokkien) 痰
Manila (Hokkien) 痰
Leizhou 醪瀾
Wu Shanghai 痰
Xiang Hengyang 痰唾

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

痰

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. phlegm; sputum

Readings

  • Go-on: だん (dan)←だむ (damu, historical)
  • Kan-on: たん (tan)←たむ (tamu, historical)

Compounds

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Kanji in this term
痰
たん
Hyōgai
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 痰 (tán).

Pronunciation

Noun

痰(たん) • (tan) 

  1. phlegm

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

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