瞻

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瞻 U+77BB, 瞻
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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

trad. 瞻
simp. # 瞻
alternative forms 詹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瞻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (詹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
甔 *toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔 *taːm, *taːms
儋 *ʔl'aːm
聸 *taːm
膽 *taːmʔ
黵 *taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹 *daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺 *daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻 *tjam
詹 *tjam
蟾 *tjam, *djam
噡 *tjam
譫 *tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂 *tʰjams
贍 *djams
檐 *lam
簷 *lam
舚 *tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjam): semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 詹 (OC *tjam)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 瞻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職廉切
Baxter tsyem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiɛm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciam/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiɛm/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭɛm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zim1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瞻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyem ›
Old
Chinese 		/*am/
English see, look at

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 瞻
Reading # 1/1
No. 16760
Phonetic
component 		詹
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		詹
Old
Chinese 		/*tjam/

Definitions

瞻

  1. to look up or forward
  2. to look with reverence; to look up to
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)
  • Kun: みる (miru)

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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