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Translingual
Han character
慚 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心十十中 (PJJL), four-corner 92021, composition ⿰忄斬)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 398, character 40
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11096
- Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2344, character 20
- Unihan data for U+615A
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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慚
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*zaːm
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慙
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*zaːm
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鏨
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*zaːm, *zaːmʔ, *zaːms, *zeːm, *zamʔ
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槧
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*zaːmʔ, *sʰam, *sʰams, *zamʔ
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暫
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*zaːms
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蹔
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*zaːms
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斬
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*ʔsreːmʔ
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獑
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*zeːm, *zaːm
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嶃
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*zreːmʔ, *zaːm
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覱
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*ʔsraːms
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摲
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*sʰraːms
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漸
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*ʔsam, *zamʔ
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塹
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*sʰams
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壍
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*sʰams
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嬱
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*sʰams
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螹
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*zam, *zamʔ
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蔪
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*zamʔ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *zaːm) : phonetic 斬 (OC *ʔsreːmʔ) + semantic 心 (“heart”)
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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慚
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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cán
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Middle Chinese
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‹ dzam ›
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Old Chinese
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/*ˁam/
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English
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ashamed
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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
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慚
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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16788
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Phonetic component
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斬
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Rime group
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談
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Rime subdivision
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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慙
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Old Chinese
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/*zaːm/
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Notes
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同慙
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Definitions
慚
- ashamed; embarrassed
Usage notes
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
慚
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
- Go-on: ざん (zan)←ざん (zan, historical)←ざむ (zamu, ancient)
- Kan-on: さん (san)←さん (san, historical)←さむ (samu, ancient)
- Kun: はじ (haji, 慚)←はぢ (fadi, 慚, historical)、はじる (hajiru, 慚じる)←はぢる (fadiru, 慚ぢる, historical)
Korean
Hanja
慚 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)
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Vietnamese
Han character
慚: Hán Nôm readings: tàm, tuồm, tam, tom, tùm
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