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Translingual
Han character
瞻 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月山弓金口 (BUNCR), four-corner 67061, composition ⿰目詹)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 818, character 36
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23742
- Dae Jaweon: page 1230, character 32
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2518, character 9
- Unihan data for U+77BB
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 甔
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*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
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| 擔
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*taːm, *taːms
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| 儋
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*ʔl'aːm
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| 聸
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*taːm
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| 膽
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*taːmʔ
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| 黵
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*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
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| 澹
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*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
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| 憺
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*daːmʔ, *daːms
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| 瞻
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*tjam
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| 詹
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*tjam
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| 蟾
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*tjam, *djam
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| 噡
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*tjam
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| 譫
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*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
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| 幨
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*tʰjam, *tʰjams
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| 襜
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*tʰjam, *tʰjams
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| 韂
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*tʰjams
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| 贍
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*djams
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| 檐
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*lam
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| 簷
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*lam
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| 舚
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*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjam) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 詹 (OC *tjam)
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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瞻
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhān
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsyem ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*am/
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| English
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see, look at
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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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瞻
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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16760
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Phonetic
component
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詹
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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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詹
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Old
Chinese
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/*tjam/
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Definitions
瞻
- to look up or forward
- to look with reverence; to look up to
- † to observe
Compounds
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 瞻 – see 䀐 (“(Min Nan) to glance”).
(This character is a variant form of 䀐). |
Japanese
Kanji
瞻
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
瞻 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)
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Vietnamese
Han character
瞻 (chiêm)
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