唅

唅 U+5505, 唅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5505 ← 唄 [U+5504] CJK Unified Ideographs 唆 → [U+5506]

Translingual

Han character

唅 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口人戈口 (ROIR) or 難口人戈口 (XROIR), four-corner 6806₂, composition ⿰口含)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3695
• Dae Jaweon: page 411, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 632, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5505

Chinese

trad.		唅
simp. #		唅

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hān, hán, hàn (han¹, han², han⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢ, ㄏㄢˊ, ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ham⁴, ham⁶, ham³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: han
    • Wade–Giles: han¹
    • Yale: hān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: han
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hán
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hán
    • Wade–Giles: han²
    • Yale: hán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: harn
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ham⁴, ham⁶, ham³
    • Yale: hàhm, hahm, ham
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ham⁴, ham⁶, ham³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hem⁴, hem⁶, hem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐm²¹/, /hɐm²²/, /hɐm³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ām
    • Tâi-lô: ām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: am
    • IPA (Xiamen): /am²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /am⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /am²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /am³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /am³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xom, homH

Rime
Character	唅	唅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	火含切	胡紺切
Baxter	xom	homH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hʌm/	/ɦʌmH/
Pan Wuyun	/həm/	/ɦəmH/
Shao Rongfen	/xɒm/	/ɣɒmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/həm/	/ɦəmH/
Li Rong	/xᴀm/	/ɣᴀmH/
Wang Li	/xɒm/	/ɣɒmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xăm/	/ɣămH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hān	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham1	ham6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə-m-kˤ[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰɯːm/, /*ɡɯːms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	唅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hán
Middle Chinese	‹ hom ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə-m-kˁ[ə]m/
English	hold in the mouth
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	唅	唅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6559	6571
Phonetic component	今	今
Rime group	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	㟏	憾
Old Chinese	/*qʰɯːm/	/*ɡɯːms/
Notes	見漢書	見漢書

Definitions

唅

1. ^† a piece of jade or gemstone put into the mouth of a dead body at funeral
2. ^† Alternative form of 含

References

• 唅 in ZDIC

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hahⁿ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hahⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hannh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hvaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hãʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hãʔ³²/

Definitions

唅

1. (Southern Min) Used to indicate doubt or questioning. what?, huh?, eh

   唅？你講啥物？ [Hokkien, trad.]
   唅？你讲啥物？ [Hokkien, simp.]

   Hahⁿ? Lí kóng sahN-mih? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Huh? What did you say?

Usage notes

This interjection is spoken with rising tone instead of flat tone.

Descendants

• → Mandarin: 蛤

References

• “Entry #5802”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji

唅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. sound
2. to put in the mouth

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan); こん (kon); ごん (gon)
• Kun: ふくむ (fukumu, 唅む)

Korean

Hanja

唅 • (ham) (hangeul 함)

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Vietnamese

Han character

唅: Hán Nôm readings: hầm, gầm, hằm, hàm, hợm, ngậm, hăm, hụm

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