諶

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See also: 谌
諶 U+8AF6, 諶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AF6
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 諷 →

Translingual

Han character

諶 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口廿一女 (YRTMV), four-corner 04611, composition ⿰訁甚)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1171, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35739
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1636, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3994, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8AF6

Chinese

trad. 諶
simp. 谌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 諶
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (甚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湛 *ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um
媅 *ʔl'uːm
黮 *l̥ʰuːmʔ, *l'uːmʔ
糂 *sluːmʔ
堪 *kʰluːm
戡 *kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ
嵁 *kʰluːm, *ŋɡluːm, *ŋɡluːmʔ, *sɡruːmʔ, *kʰruːm
歁 *kʰluːmʔ, *kʰluːb
勘 *kʰluːms
磡 *kʰuːms
墈 *kʰuːms
偡 *r'uːmʔ
碪 *ʔl'um
椹 *ʔl'um
揕 *ʔl'ums
踸 *l̥ʰumʔ
鍖 *l̥ʰumʔ
斟 *kljum
諶 *ɡljum
愖 *ɡljum
瘎 *ɡljum
煁 *ɡljum
甚 *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums
葚 *ɦljumʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡljum) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 甚 (OC *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums).

Pronunciation

Note: shèn - variant pronunciation for the surname (inferred using the youbian dubian method).
Rime
Character 諶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 氏任切
Baxter dzyim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʑiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ʑim/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʑjem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ʑim/
Li
Rong 		/ʑiəm/
Wang
Li 		/ʑĭĕm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʑi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sam4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 諶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chén
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzyim ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m/
English reliable, to trust

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 諶
Reading # 1/1
No. 11292
Phonetic
component 		甚
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		諶
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡljum/

Definitions

諶

  1. (literary) to believe
  2. (literary) sincere; honest
  3. (literary) indeed
  4. a surname
    諶龍／谌龙  ―  Chén Lóng  ―  Chen Long (Chinese badminton player）

Japanese

Kanji

諶

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. sincere
  2. faithful

Readings

  • On (unclassified): しん (shin)、じん (jin)
  • Kun: まこと (makoto)

Korean

Hanja

諶 • (sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune–Reischauer sim, Yale sim)

  1. truth
  2. to believe

Vietnamese

Han character

諶: Hán Nôm readings: kham, thầm, thòm, xầm

  1. (Rare) A Vietnamese surname (pronounced as xầm)
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