湎

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湎 U+6E4E, 湎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E4E
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Translingual

Han character

湎 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水一田中 (EMWL), four-corner 31160, composition ⿰氵面)

  1. flushed with drink, drunk

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 636, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17826
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1672, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6E4E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 湎
alternative forms 䤄
𩈳
𨟺
沔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (面) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蝒 *men
緬 *menʔ
湎 *menʔ
愐 *menʔ
偭 *menʔ, *mens
勔 *menʔ
面 *mens
麵 *meːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *menʔ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 面 (OC *mens).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 湎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌兖切
Baxter mjienX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/miɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mianX/
Li
Rong 		/miɛnX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭɛnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		miǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		min5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 湎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		miǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjienX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*menʔ/
English sink in (wine)

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 湎
Reading # 1/1
No. 9094
Phonetic
component 		面
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		緬
Old
Chinese 		/*menʔ/

Definitions

湎

  1. (literary) to give in to drinking; to lose oneself in drink
  2. (literary) to indulge in; to wallow in; to abandon oneself to

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “湎”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 157.

Japanese

Kanji

湎

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. be immersed in
  2. be absorbed in

Readings

  • Go-on: めん (men)
  • Kan-on: べん (ben)
  • Kun: おぼれる (oboreru, 湎れる)、しずむ (shizumu, 湎む)

Korean

Hanja

湎 • (myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune–Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

湎: Hán Nôm readings: giờn

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