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Translingual
Han character
纜 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+21, 27 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸田山 (VFSWU), four-corner 28916, composition ⿰糹覽)
- hawser, heavy-duty rope, cable
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 944, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28100
- Dae Jaweon: page 1384, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3472, character 4
- Unihan data for U+7E9C
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 藍
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*ɡ·raːm
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| 襤
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*ɡ·raːm
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| 籃
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*ɡ·raːm
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| 懢
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*ɡ·raːm, *ɡ·raːms
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| 儖
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*ɡ·raːm
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| 蘫
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*ɡ·raːm, *qʰlaːms
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| 攬
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*ɡ·raːmʔ
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| 欖
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*ɡ·raːmʔ
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| 覽
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*ɡ·raːmʔ
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| 爁
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*ɡ·raːmʔ, *ɡ·raːms, *ɡ·rams
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| 擥
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*ɡ·raːmʔ
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| 灠
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*ɡ·raːmʔ
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| 濫
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*ɡ·raːms, *ɡraːmʔ
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| 嚂
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*ɡ·raːms, *kʰlaːms, *qʰlaːmʔ
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| 纜
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*ɡ·raːms
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| 監
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*kraːm, *kraːms
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| 礛
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*kraːm
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| 鑑
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*kraːm, *kraːms, *kraːms
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| 艦
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*ɡraːmʔ
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| 檻
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*ɡraːmʔ, *ɡraːms
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| 壏
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*ɡraːmʔ
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| 轞
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*ɡraːmʔ
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| 鹽
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*ɡ·lam, *ɡ·lams
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·raːms) : semantic 糹 (“silk”) + phonetic 覽 (OC *ɡ·raːmʔ).
Etymology
Note similarities with 欄 (OC *ɡ·raːn, “railing, balustrade”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
Note: laam6-2 - gambling.
Note:
- lam2 - Chaozhou;
- nam2 - Shantou.
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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纜
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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6098
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Phonetic
component
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監
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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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Old
Chinese
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/*ɡ·raːms/
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Definitions
纜
- (literary) hawser; heavy rope for mooring boats
- cable; thick rope with many strands (Classifier: 條／条 c)
- to moor; to tie; to fasten
- (Cantonese) to wear something that requires wrapping
- 纜片／缆片 [Cantonese] ― laam6 pin3-2 ― to wear a diaper
- 纜頸巾／缆颈巾 [Cantonese] ― laam6 geng2 gan1 ― to wear a scarf
- 纜皮帶／缆皮带 [Cantonese] ― laam6 pei4 daai3-2 ― to wear a leather belt
- 纜安全帶／缆安全带 [Cantonese] ― laam6 on1 cyun4 daai3-2 ― to fasten a seatbelt
- (Cantonese) betting slips for illegal bookmaking
- (gambling, originally Cantonese) martingale (gambling strategy) (Classifier: 條／条 c)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
纜
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
纜 • (ram>nam) (hangeul 람>남, revised ram>nam, McCune–Reischauer ram>nam, Yale lam>nam)
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