瘖

瘖 U+7616, 瘖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7616 ← 瘕 [U+7615] CJK Unified Ideographs 瘗 → [U+7617]

Translingual

Han character

瘖 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 大卜廿日 (KYTA), four-corner 0016₁, composition ⿸疒音)

1. dumb, mute, unable to speak

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 777, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22359
• Dae Jaweon: page 1187, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2686, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7616

Chinese

trad.		瘖/喑*
simp.		喑*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瘖
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
諳	*qɯːm
腤	*qɯːm
嬜	*qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑	*qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯	*qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗	*qɯːms
闇	*qɯːms
黯	*qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆	*qʰrɯm
愔	*qɯm
韾	*qɯm
音	*qrɯm
瘖	*qrɯm
窨	*qrɯms
湆	*kʰrɯb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīn (yin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yin
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹
    • Yale: yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: in
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵/

Definitions

瘖

1. (dated) mute; dumb (unable to speak)
2. (dated) speechless

Compounds

• 嚚瘖
• 瘖啞／瘖哑 (yīnyǎ)
• 瘖啞人／瘖哑人
• 瘖默／喑默 (yīnmò)
• 萬馬皆瘖／万马皆瘖
• 萬馬齊瘖／万马齐瘖
• 聾盲瘖啞／聋盲瘖哑

 

Japanese

Kanji

瘖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. dumb; mute; unable to speak

Readings

• On (unclassified): いん (in); おん (on)
• Kun: おし (oshi)

Korean

Hanja

瘖 (eum 음 (eum))

1. deaf
2. mute
3. darkness