龕

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See also: 龛
龕 U+9F95, 龕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F95
← 龔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 龖 →

Translingual

Han character

龕 (Kangxi radical 212, 龍+6, 22 strokes, cangjie input 人口卜月心 (ORYBP), four-corner 80211, composition ⿱合龍)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1537, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48839
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2078, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4805, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+9F95

Chinese

trad. 龕
simp. 龛
alternative forms 𪚕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 龕
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 (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
龕 *kʰuːm
媕 *quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜 *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答 *tkuːb
畣 *tkuːb
荅 *tkuːb
嗒 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡 *tuːb, *toːb
撘 *tuːb
搭 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙 *tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮 *tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤 *kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
合 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌 *kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿 *kuːb
閤 *kuːb
鞈 *kuːb, *kruːb
韐 *kuːb, *kruːb
鮯 *kuːb
哈 *ŋɡuːb
姶 *quːb, *quːb
欱 *qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒 *ɡuːb
耠 *ɡuːb
詥 *ɡuːb
塔 *tʰuːb
鞳 *tʰoːb
劄 *rtuːb
跲 *kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷 *kruːb, *ŋkob
餄 *kruːb
恰 *kʰruːb
帢 *kʰruːb
洽 *ɡruːb
祫 *ɡruːb
珨 *ɡruːb
烚 *ɡruːb
歙 *qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁 *tkʰub
拾 *ɡjub
給 *krub
翕 *qʰrub
噏 *qʰrub
潝 *qʰrub
熻 *qʰrub
嬆 *qʰrub
翖 *qʰrub
闟 *qʰrub

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰuːm): phonetic 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb) + semantic 龍.

Duan Yucai consider it a corrupted form of 𪚕: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰuːm): phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 龍.

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 龕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 口含切
Baxter khom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰəm/
Li
Rong 		/kʰᴀm/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɒm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ham1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 龕
Reading # 1/1
No. 4940
Phonetic
component 		合
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		龕
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰuːm/

Definitions

龕

  1. shrine; niche
  2. alternative form of 戡 (“to overcome; to suppress”)

Compounds

References

  • “龕”, 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), “龛”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 120.

Japanese

Kanji

龕

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: こん (kon)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)
  • Kan’yō-on: がん (gan)
  • Kun: ずし (zushi)、れい (rei)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
龕
がん
Hyōgai
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese 龕 (MC khom), later corrupted with voicing.

Pronunciation

Noun

龕(がん) • (gan) 

  1. alcove for an image

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

龕 • (gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune–Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

  1. niche, shrine
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