螹

螹 U+87B9, 螹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87B9 ← 螸 [U+87B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 螺 → [U+87BA]

Translingual

Han character

螹 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈十十中 (LIJJL), four-corner 5212₁, composition ⿰虫斬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1095, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33510
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2883, character 10
• Unihan data for U+87B9

Chinese

trad.		螹
simp.		𰳂

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàn, chán (jian⁴, chan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ, ㄔㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàn
    • Wade–Giles: chien⁴
    • Yale: jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
    • Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻan²
    • Yale: chán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charn
    • Palladius: чань (čanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zim⁶
    • Yale: jihm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzjem, dzjemX

Rime
Character	螹	螹
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	昨鹽切	慈染切
Baxter	dzjem	dzjemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziᴇm/	/d͡ziᴇmX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziɛm/	/d͡ziɛmX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjæm/	/d͡zjæmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ziam/	/d͡ziamX/
Li Rong	/d͡ziɛm/	/d͡ziɛmX/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭɛm/	/d͡zĭɛmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯ɛm/	/d͡zʱi̯ɛmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qián	jiàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cim4	zim6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zam/, /*zamʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螹	螹
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16810	16814
Phonetic component	斬	斬
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	潛	漸
Old Chinese	/*zam/	/*zamʔ/

Definitions

螹

1. Only used in 螹胡／𰳂胡 and 螹离／𰳂离.