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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 75 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木人一人 (DOMO), four-corner 48986, composition)

  1. to check
  2. examine

References

  • KangXi: page 557, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15684
  • Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1303, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6AA2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
*qʰlaːm
*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
*kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
*ɡ·ram
*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
*ɡ·ram
*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
*ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
*ɡ·ramʔ
*ɡ·rams
*skʰlam
*skʰlam
*skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
*skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
*kramʔ
*kramʔ
*ɡramʔ
*ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
*ŋramʔ
*ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
*ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
*ŋrams
*qʰramʔ
*kams
*kams
𩏩 *qʰam

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kramʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *skʰlam).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjiamX/
Li
Rong
/kjɛmX/
Wang
Li
/kĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjemX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]r[a]mʔ/
English measure (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10209
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kramʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(geom) (hangeul , revised geom, McCune-Reischauer kŏm, Yale kem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ghém, kiểm)

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