讖

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See also: 谶 and 識
讖 U+8B96, 讖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B96
← 讕
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 讗 →

Translingual

Han character

讖 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+17, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人戈一 (YROIM), four-corner 03650, composition ⿰訁韱)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1187, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36144
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1651, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4032, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8B96

Chinese

trad. 讖
simp. 谶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (韱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
讖 *sʰrims
攕 *sreːm
櫼 *sreːm, *ʔsem
懺 *sʰraːms
殲 *ʔsem
瀸 *ʔsem
鑯 *ʔsem
虃 *ʔslem
籤 *sʰem
韯 *sem
纖 *sem
孅 *sem
韱 *sem
襳 *sem, *srem, *srim

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰrims): semantic 言 (“words; speech; language”) + phonetic 韱 (OC *sem).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 讖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 楚譖切
Baxter tsrhimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃʰˠiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚimH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃʰiemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂʰjimH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃʰjəmH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃʰĭĕmH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cam3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 讖
Reading # 1/1
No. 1401
Phonetic
component 		韱
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		讖
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰrims/

Definitions

讖

  1. text of soothsay
  2. prophecy

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (讖):
  • → Vietnamese: sấm (讖)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 讖 – see 懺 (“to repent; to confess on account of repentance”).
(This character is a variant form of 懺).

Compounds

References

  • “讖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “谶”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 29.

Japanese

Kanji

讖

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. a revealing omen

Readings

  • Go-on: しん (shin)←しむ (simu, historical)
  • Kan-on: しん (shin)←しむ (simu, historical)
  • Kun: しるし (shirushi, 讖)、おみくじ (omikuji, 讖)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

讖 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

讖: Hán Việt readings: sấm

Noun

讖 • (sấm)

  1. chữ Hán form of sấm (“prophecy”)

References

  1. ^ Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ^ Trần (2004).
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