銜

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See also: 衔
銜 U+929C, 銜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-929C
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Translingual

Han character

銜 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹人金一弓 (HOCMN), four-corner 21109, composition ⿲彳釒亍)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1305, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40390
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 840, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+929C

Chinese

trad. 銜
simp. 衔
alternative forms
䘖
衘
啣
㘅
𠼫
䘖
衘
啣
㘅
𠼫
㗸
𠷢
𠾑
𭊷
咁
嗛
 

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 銜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡraːm) : semantic 行 + phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • hàng - vernacular;
  • gàng - literary.
Note:
  • khâⁿ/hâⁿ - vernacular;
  • hâm - literary.
Note:
  • gan5 - vernacular;
  • ham5 - literary.
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 銜
    Mandarin Beijing /ɕian³⁵/
    Harbin /ɕian²⁴/
    Tianjin /ɕian⁴⁵/
    Jinan /ɕiã⁴²/
    Qingdao /ɕiã⁵⁵/
    Zhengzhou /ɕian⁴²/
    Xi'an /ɕiã²⁴/
    Xining /ɕiã²⁴/
    Yinchuan /ɕian⁵³/
    Lanzhou /ɕiɛ̃n⁵³/
    Ürümqi /ɕian⁵¹/
    /t͡ɕʰiɤ⁵¹/
    Wuhan /ɕiɛn²¹³/ 頭～
    /xan²¹³/ ～冤
    Chengdu /xan³¹/
    /ɕian³¹/
    Guiyang /ɕian²¹/
    /xan²¹/ 老
    Kunming /ɕiɛ̃³¹/
    Nanjing /ɕien²⁴/
    Hefei /ɕiĩ⁵⁵/
    Jin Taiyuan /ɕie¹¹/
    Pingyao /ɕie̞¹³/
    Hohhot /ɕie³¹/
    Wu Shanghai /ɦe²³/
    Suzhou /ɦiɪ¹³/
    Hangzhou /ɦẽ̞²¹³/
    /ɦiẽ̞²¹³/
    Wenzhou /ɦa³¹/
    Hui Shexian /ɕie⁴⁴/
    /xɛ⁴⁴/
    Tunxi /kɔ⁴⁴/
    Xiang Changsha /xan¹³/
    Xiangtan /ɦan¹²/
    Gan Nanchang /han²⁴/
    Hakka Meixian /ham¹¹/
    Taoyuan /hɑm¹¹/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /ham²¹/
    Nanning /ham²¹/
    Hong Kong /ham²¹/
    /hɐm²¹/
    Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ham³⁵/
    /kã³⁵/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kaŋ⁵³/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /aŋ²¹/
    Shantou (Teochew) /ham⁵⁵/
    /kã⁵⁵/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /ham³¹/
    /ka³¹/
    Rime
    Character 銜
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
    Final (韻) 銜 (149)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) II
    Fanqie 戸監切
    Baxter haem
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/ɦˠam/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/ɦᵚam/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/ɣam/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/ɦaɨm/
    Li
    Rong         		/ɣam/
    Wang
    Li         		/ɣam/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/ɣam/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		xián
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		haam4
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 銜
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		xián
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ hæm ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ˁrm/
    English a bit

    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 銜
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 13534
    Phonetic
    component         		銜
    Rime
    group         		談
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		銜
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ɡraːm/
    Notes 當爲從金行聲

    Definitions

    銜

    1. to hold in the mouth
    2. to harbor (hold in one's thoughts)
    3. to connect
      銜接／衔接  ―  xiánjiē  ―  to join together; to combine; to link up
    4. rank; title
      軍銜／军衔  ―  jūnxián  ―  military rank
    5. (literary, or in compounds) to accept
    6. (literary, or in compounds) bit (of a horse)

    Synonyms

    • (to connect):
    • (to accept):

    Compounds

    References

    Japanese

    Kanji

    銜

    (Hyōgai kanji)

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    Readings

    • Go-on: げん (gen)
    • Kan-on: かん (kan)
    • Kan’yō-on: がん (gan)
    • Kun: くつわ (kutsuwa)、ふくむ (fukumu)

    Korean

    Hanja

    銜 • (ham) (hangeul 함, revised ham, McCune–Reischauer ham, Yale ham)

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    銜: Hán Nôm readings: hàm

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