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See also:
U+995E, 饞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-995E

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 184, +17, 26 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓口戈 (OINRI), four-corner 87713, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1427, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44479
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4479, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+995E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *zrɯːm) : semantic (to eat; food) + phonetic (OC *zrɯːm, *zraːm).

Etymology 1

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (20)
Final () (151)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter dzream
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʒˠɛm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖ͡ʐᵚæm/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʒɐm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖ͡ʐəɨm/
Li
Rong
/d͡ʒɐm/
Wang
Li
/d͡ʒɐm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɖ͡ʐʱăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
caam4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1222
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zrɯːm/
Notes

Definitions

  1. gluttonous; greedy
  2. lewd; lecherous

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (Southern Min) gluttonous; ravenous

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. gluttonous
  2. greedy
  3. lewd
  4. lecher

Readings

  • On (unclassified): さん (san)ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. gluttonous
  2. greedy
  3. lewd
  4. lecherous

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: sàm[1][2][3][4][5][6]
: Nôm readings: thèm[6], thiểm[7]

  1. Nôm form of thèm (to want; to crave).

References