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眈
眈
Translingual
Han character
眈 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山中月山 (BULBU), four-corner 64012)
- gloat, stare at
- to delay, to loiter, to hinder
References
- KangXi: page 802, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23189
- Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2477, character 13
- Unihan data for U+7708
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
眈 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 眈
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| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (冘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 冘 | *lu, *lum |
| 抌 | *lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ |
| 狖 | *lus |
| 貁 | *lus |
| 耽 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 眈 | *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm |
| 酖 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 妉 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 黕 | *ʔl'uːmʔ |
| 衴 | *ʔl'uːmʔ |
| 瓭 | *ʔl'uːmʔ |
| 馾 | *ʔl'uːms |
| 髧 | *l'uːmʔ |
| 紞 | *ʔl'oːmʔ |
| 鈂 | *zlum, *l'um |
| 沈 | *l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ |
| 沉 | *l'um |
| 枕 | *l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums |
| 莐 | *l'um |
| 霃 | *l'um |
| 鴆 | *l'ums |
| 訦 | *ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ |
| 忱 | *ɦljum |
| 邥 | *hljumʔ |
| 魫 | *hljumʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
- Wade-Giles: tan1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
- IPA (key): /ta̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: daam1
- Yale: dāam
- Cantonese Pinyin: daam1
- IPA (key): /tɑːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 眈 | 眈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 徒含切 | 丁含切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/dʌm/ | /tʌm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/dəm/ | /təm/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dɒm/ | /tɒm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/dəm/ | /təm/ |
| Li Rong |
/dᴀm/ | /tᴀm/ |
| Wang Li |
/dɒm/ | /tɒm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱăm/ | /tăm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
tán | dān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 眈 | 眈 | 眈 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 15242 | 15246 | 15250 |
| Phonetic component |
冘 | 冘 | 冘 |
| Rime group |
侵 | 侵 | 侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
耽 | 黕 | 覃 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ʔl'uːm/ | /*ʔl'uːmʔ/ | /*l'uːm/ |
| Notes | 由耽依集韻校改 | ||
Definitions
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
眈 • (tam) (hangeul 탐, revised tam, McCune-Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)
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