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U+5A6A, 婪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A6A

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 38, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木木女 (DDV), four-corner 44404, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6436
  • Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1056, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5A6A

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡ·ruːm) : phonetic (OC *ɡ·rɯm) + semantic (woman).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter lom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ləm/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ləm/
Li
Rong
/lᴀm/
Wang
Li
/lɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
laam4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lán
Middle
Chinese
‹ lom ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁm/
English 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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8160
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·ruːm/

Definitions

  1. to covet; to be avaricious; to be greedy

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. covetous
  2. ravenous

Readings

  • Go-on: らん (ran)
  • Kan-on: らん (ran)
  • On: りん (rin)
  • Kun: むさぼる (musaboru, 婪る)

Korean

Hanja

(ram) (hangeul , revised ram, McCune–Reischauer ram)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: lam

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