粘

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See also: 黏
粘 U+7C98, 粘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C98
← 粗
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 粙 →

Translingual

Han character

粘 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜口 (FDYR), four-corner 91960, composition ⿰米占)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 907, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26901
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1334, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3144, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7C98

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (占) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
頕 *taːm
煔 *ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶 *ɦlaːm
詀 *rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站 *rteːms
檆 *sreːm
黏 *nem
粘 *nem
枮 *slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑 *tem
沾 *tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘 *tems, *tʰem
鉆 *tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占 *ʔljem, *tjems
颭 *tjemʔ
佔 *tjems, *teːm
苫 *hljem, *hljems
痁 *hljem, *teːms
蛅 *njem
阽 *lem
敁 *teːm
掂 *tiːm
點 *teːmʔ
玷 *teːmʔ, *teːms
店 *tiːms
坫 *tiːms, *tim
黇 *tʰeːm
扂 *deːmʔ
拈 *neːm
鮎 *neːm
砧 *ʔl'ɯm
笘 *teːb
跕 *teːb, *tʰeːb
貼 *tʰeːb
帖 *tʰeːb
怗 *tʰeːb
呫 *tʰeːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nem) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 占 (OC *ʔljem, *tjems) – glutinous, sticky rice.

Etymology 1

trad. 粘
simp. # 粘

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chiam/liâm - literary;
  • chiam - vernacular (Zhangzhou).
    • (Teochew)
      • Peng'im: liam1 / niam1 / niang1 / liam5 / niam5 / niang5 / ziam1 / ziang1
      • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: liam / niam / niang / liâm / niâm / niâng / tsiam / tsiang
      • Sinological IPA (key): /liam³³/, /niam³³/, /niaŋ³³/, /liam⁵⁵/, /niam⁵⁵/, /niaŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡siam³³/, /t͡siaŋ³³/
Note:
  • liam1/liam5/ziam1 - Chaozhou;
  • niam1/niam5 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai;
  • niang1/niang5/ziang1 - Chenghai.
Rime
Character 粘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 娘 (12)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 女廉切
Baxter nrjem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳˠiᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳᵚiɛm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/niæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳjiam/
Li
Rong 		/njɛm/
Wang
Li 		/nĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ni̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nim4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 粘
Reading # 1/1
No. 16699
Phonetic
component 		占
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		黏
Old
Chinese 		/*nem/

Definitions

粘

  1. to adhere; to stick
  2. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 粘 – see 黏 (“sticky; glutinous; to adhere; to stick”).
(This character is a variant form of 黏).

References

Japanese

Kanji

粘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sticky, glutinous
  2. to stick to, to cling to
  3. to persevere

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is 념 (nyeom) based on Middle Chinese 粘 (MC nrjem).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

粘 (eumhun 붙을 점 (buteul jeom))

  1. Hanja form? of 점 (“sticky”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

粘: Hán Nôm readings: niêm, chiêm, dính

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