詹

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詹 U+8A79, 詹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A79
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Translingual

Han character

詹 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓金卜一口 (NCYMR), four-corner 27261, composition ⿸厃⿱八言(G) or ⿸厃⿱⿰丿㇄言(HT) or ⿸厃⿱儿言(JK))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1159, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35458
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3967, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8A79

Chinese

trad. 詹
simp. # 詹
alternative forms 噡
譫／谵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 詹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 詹
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 詹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyem ›
Old
Chinese 		/*am/
English garrulous

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 詹
Reading # 1/1
No. 16761
Phonetic
component 		詹
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		詹
Old
Chinese 		/*tjam/
Notes 段注云當厃聲

Definitions

詹

  1. verbose; garrulous
  2. to talk too much; to be verbose
  3. to arrive; to reach
  4. to manage; to administer
  5. Alternative form of 瞻 (zhān, “to look upward or forward”)
  6. a surname
    詹天佑  ―  Zhān Tiānyòu  ―  Zhan Tianyou (Chinese railroad engineer)

Descendants

  • → English: Zhan, Chan, Cham, Chiam, Tsim, Chim

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

詹

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. talk too much
  2. verbose

Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)、たん (tan)、だん (dan)

Korean

Hanja

詹 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

  1. arrive
  2. verbose

Vietnamese

Han character

詹: Hán Nôm readings: chiêm

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References

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