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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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貪
|
婪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
tān
|
lán
|
Middle
Chinese
|
‹ thom ›
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‹ lom ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*r̥ˁm/
|
/*ˁm/
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| English
|
to covet
|
to covet
|
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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
|
貪
|
婪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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6552
|
8160
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Phonetic
component
|
今
|
林
|
Rime
group
|
侵
|
侵
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Rime
subdivision
|
3
|
3
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
探
|
婪
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Old
Chinese
|
/*kʰl'uːm/
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/*ɡ·ruːm/
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Adjective
貪婪
- rapacious; avaricious; greedy; avid
Synonyms
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Descendants
References
“Entry #50959”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.