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漸

漸

See also: 渐

Translingual

Han character

漸 (radical 85 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水十十中 (EJJL), four-corner 32121, composition ⿰氵斬)

  1. gradually
  2. 53rd hexagram of the I Ching

References

  • KangXi: page 647, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18179
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1057, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1717, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6F38

Chinese

trad. 漸
simp. 渐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (斬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
慚 *zaːm
慙 *zaːm
鏨 *zaːm, *zaːmʔ, *zaːms, *zeːm, *zamʔ
槧 *zaːmʔ, *sʰam, *sʰams, *zamʔ
暫 *zaːms
蹔 *zaːms
斬 *ʔsreːmʔ
獑 *zeːm, *zaːm
嶃 *zreːmʔ, *zaːm
覱 *ʔsraːms
摲 *sʰraːms
漸 *ʔsam, *zamʔ
塹 *sʰams
壍 *sʰams
嬱 *sʰams
螹 *zam, *zamʔ
蔪 *zamʔ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 漸
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕian⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕian⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕian⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiã²¹/
Qingdao /t͡siã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sian³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sã⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sã²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕian¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕian²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sien⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ʑi²³/
Suzhou /ziɪ³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /ji²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰe²²/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /t͡siẽ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡siẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰiam⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰiɑm¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sim²²/
Nanning /t͡sim²²/
Hong Kong /t͡sim²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡siam²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sieŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡siŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siam³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡siam³³/
Rime
Character 漸 漸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 子廉切 慈染切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇm/ /d͡ziᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛm/ /d͡ziɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjæm/ /d͡zjæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siam/ /d͡ziamX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛm/ /d͡ziɛmX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛm/ /d͡zĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛm/ /d͡zʱi̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiān jiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 漸 漸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiān jiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjem › ‹ dzjemX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]am/ /*[dz]amʔ/
English moisten gradually; advance

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 漸 漸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16804 16811
Phonetic
component		 斬 斬
Rime
group		 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 尖 漸
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsam/ /*zamʔ/

Definitions

漸

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Japanese

Kanji

漸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

漸 • ‎(jeom, cham) (hangeul 점, 참, revised jeom, cham, McCune-Reischauer chŏm, ch'am, Yale cem, cham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

漸 (tiệm, tràn, tiêm, tiềm)

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