饞

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See also: 馋
饞 U+995E, 饞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-995E
← 饝
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 饟 →

Translingual

Han character

饞 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+17, 26 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓口戈 (OINRI), four-corner 87713, composition ⿰飠毚)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1427, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44479
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4479, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+995E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
纔 *zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm
讒 *zrɯːm, *zraːms
饞 *zrɯːm
毚 *zrɯːm, *zraːm
欃 *zrɯːm, *zraːms
攙 *zrɯːm, *sʰraːm
儳 *zrɯːm, *zrɯːms, *sʰraːms
酁 *zrɯːm
瀺 *zrɯːmʔ
嚵 *sʰraːms, *zraːm, *zlamʔ
巉 *zraːm, *zraːmʔ
劖 *zraːm
艬 *zraːm, *zraːms
鑱 *zraːm, *zraːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zrɯːm) : semantic 飠 (“to eat; food”) + phonetic 毚 (OC *zrɯːm, *zraːm).

Etymology 1

trad. 饞
simp. 馋
alternative forms 嚵

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 饞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 崇 (20)
Final (韻) 咸 (151)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 士咸切
Baxter dzream
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʒˠɛm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖ͡ʐᵚæm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʒɐm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖ͡ʐəɨm/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ʒɐm/
Wang
Li 		/d͡ʒɐm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɖ͡ʐʱăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		caam4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 饞
Reading # 1/1
No. 1222
Phonetic
component 		毚
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		讒
Old
Chinese 		/*zrɯːm/
Notes 見易林

Definitions

饞

  1. gluttonous; greedy
  2. lewd; lecherous

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 饞
simp. 馋

Pronunciation

Definitions

饞

  1. (Southern Min) gluttonous; ravenous

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

饞

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. gluttonous
  2. greedy
  3. lewd
  4. lecher

Readings

  • On (unclassified): さん (san)、ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. gluttonous
  2. greedy
  3. lewd
  4. lecherous

Vietnamese

Han character

饞: Hán Việt readings: sàm[1][2][3][4][5][6]
饞: Nôm readings: thèm[6], thiểm[7]

  1. Nôm form of thèm (“to want; to crave”).

References

  1. ^ Génibrel (1898).
  2. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
  3. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  4. ^ Trần (1999).
  5. ^ Trần (2004).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  7. ^ Hồ (1976).
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