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甜
甜
See also: 甛
Translingual
Han character
甜 (radical 99 甘+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹口廿一 (HRTM), four-corner 24670, composition ⿰舌甘)
References
- KangXi: page 754, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21656
- Dae Jaweon: page 1161, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2414, character 9
- Unihan data for U+751C
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
甜 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | ||
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 甜
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| Large seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (甜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 銛 | *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 栝 | *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 餂 | *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 恬 | *l'eːm |
| 湉 | *l'eːm |
| 甜 | *l'iːm |
| 狧 | *l̥ʰaːb |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 舌 (“tongue”) + 甘 (“sweet”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): tim4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thiàm
- Min Dong (BUC): diĕng
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): di (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: t'ien2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
- IPA (key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: tim4
- Yale: tìhm
- Cantonese Pinyin: tim4
- IPA (key): /tʰiːm²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiàm
- Hakka Romanization System: tiamˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tiam2
- IPA: /tʰi̯am¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: diĕng
- IPA (key): /tieŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiⁿ / tiâm
- Tâi-lô: tinn / tiâm
- Phofsit Daibuun: dvy, diaam
- IPA (Xiamen): /tĩ⁴⁴/, /tiam²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tĩ³³/, /tiam²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tĩ⁴⁴/, /tiam¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /tĩ⁴⁴/, /tiam²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tĩ⁴⁴/, /tiam²³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: diam5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiâm
- IPA (key): /tiam⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: di (T3)
- IPA (key): /d̻i²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 甜 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /tʰian³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /tʰian²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /tʰian⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /tʰiã⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /tʰiã⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /tʰian⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /tʰiã²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /tʰiã²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /tʰian⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /tʰiɛ̃n⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /tʰian⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /tʰiɛn⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /tʰian³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /tʰian²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /tʰiɛ̃³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /tʰien²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /tʰiĩ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /tʰie¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /tie̞¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /tʰie³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /di²³/ |
| Suzhou | /diɪ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /diẽ̞²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /di³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /tʰe⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /tiɛ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /tiẽ¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /diẽ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /tʰiɛn²⁴/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /tʰiam¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /tʰiɑm¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /tʰim²¹/ |
| Nanning | /tʰim²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /tʰim²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/tiam³⁵/ /tĩ⁵⁵/ 俗 |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /tieŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /taŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /tiam⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔdiam³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 甜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 添 (157) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 徒兼切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/dem/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/dem/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dɛm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/dɛm/ |
| Li Rong |
/dem/ |
| Wang Li |
/diem/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱiem/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
tián |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 甜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12408 |
| Phonetic component |
甜 |
| Rime group |
侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
甜 |
| Old Chinese |
/*l'iːm/ |
Definitions
甜
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
甜 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)
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Vietnamese
Han character
甜 (điềm)
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