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U+8B96, 讖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B96

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 149, +17, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人戈一 (YROIM), four-corner 03650, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1187, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36144
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1651, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4032, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8B96

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰrims) : semantic (words; speech; language) + phonetic (OC *sem).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (19)
Final () (140)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsrhimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ʃʰˠiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰiemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈ͡ʂʰjimH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ʃʰjəmH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ʃʰĭĕmH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cam3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1401
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰrims/

Definitions

  1. text of soothsay
  2. prophecy

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: sấm ()

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to repent; to confess on account of repentance”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Compounds

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 29.

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. a revealing omen

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(cham) (hangeul , revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: sấm[1][2]

Noun

(sấm)

  1. chữ Hán form of sấm (prophecy).

References