唵

Translingual

Han character

唵 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口大中山 (RKLU), four-corner 6401₆)

1. used in Buddhist texts to transliterate non-Chinese sounds, specifically the ॐ (aum) syllable.
2. to eat with the hand

References

• KangXi: page 193, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3770
• Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 638, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5535

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Cantonese

Hanzi

唵 (Yale am2)

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Japanese

オム

Kanji

唵

Readings

• On: あん (an), おん (on)
• Kun: ふくむ (fukumu)

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Korean

Hanja

唵 (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

唵 (pinyin ǎn (an3), Wade-Giles an³)

Last modified on 18 August 2012, at 10:43