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U+886B, 衫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-886B

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 145, +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中竹竹竹 (LHHH), four-corner 32222, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1112, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34111
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1577, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3075, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+886B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sroːm) : semantic + phonetic (OC *sroːm, *slom).

Pronunciation


Note: sam1 - literary.
Note:
  • saⁿ - vernacular;
  • sam - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂan⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /san²¹/
Jinan /ʂã²¹³/
Qingdao /ʂã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʂan²⁴/
Xi'an /sã²¹/
Xining /sã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʂɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /san⁴⁴/
Wuhan /san⁵⁵/
Chengdu /san⁵⁵/
Guiyang /san⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʂæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /sæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /sɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /sæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /se⁵³/
Suzhou /se̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /sa³³/
Hui Shexian /sɛ³¹/
Tunxi /sɔn²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /san³³/
Xiangtan /san³³/
Gan Nanchang /san⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sam⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sɑm²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sam⁵⁵/
Nanning /sam⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sam⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sam⁵⁵/
/sã⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /saŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /saŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /sã³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /saŋ²³/
/ta²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (149)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter sraem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠam/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚam/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃam/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨm/
Li
Rong
/ʃam/
Wang
Li
/ʃam/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂam/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
saam1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11044
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sroːm/

Definitions

  1. (literary or Wu) unlined garment
  2. (literary or Cantonese, Min) shirt; top (Classifier: c;  mn)
    [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 gin6 saam1   ―  a shirt
  3. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Pinghua) clothing; clothes (Classifier: c;  mn)
    [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 tou3 saam1   ―  a set of clothes

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. thin cloth, especially thin silk
  2. thin undergarment, thin underwear
  3. a type of women's clothing, namely the upper part of a two-piece suit

Readings

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Akiyasu Tōdō; et al, 漢字源, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(sam) (hangeul , revised sam, McCune–Reischauer sam, Yale sam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: sam, oam, sờm

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