噉

Translingual edit

Han character edit

噉 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口一十大 (RMJK), four-corner 6804₀, composition ⿰口敢)

References edit

Kangxi Dictionary: page 208, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4299
Dae Jaweon: page 431, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 679, character 10
Unihan data for U+5649

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

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

	Old Chinese
撖	kʰɯːm, kʰreːmʔ, *ɡraːmʔ
澉	l̥ʰaːms, klaːmʔ
噉	*l'aːmʔ
敢	*klaːmʔ
橄	*klaːmʔ
瞰	*kʰlaːms
闞	kʰlaːms, qʰreːmʔ, *hŋraːms
憨	qʰaːm, qʰlaːms
譀	qʰlaːms, qʰraːms, *qʰraːb
巖	*ŋraːm
礹	ŋraːm, ŋamʔ
豃	*qʰraːmʔ
讝	*kjam
玁	*hŋramʔ
嚴	*ŋam
儼	*ŋamʔ
曮	*ŋamʔ
釅	*ŋams

Etymology 1 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 噉 – see 啖 (“to eat; to dine; to feed; etc.”). (This character, 噉, is a variant form of 啖.)

Etymology 2 edit

trad.		噉
simp. ^#		噉
alternative forms		咁

Originally written as 咁; the functions of the two words differentiated in late 19th century. Likely from the fusion of 嗰物 (go3 mat6) (Cheung, 2013).

Pronunciation edit

Cantonese (Jyutping): gam²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gam²
  - Yale: gám
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gem²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm³⁵/

Definitions edit

噉 (Cantonese)

attached to form adverbs
佢慢慢噉行。 [Cantonese] ― keoi⁵ maan⁶ maan^6-2 gam² haang⁴. [Jyutping] ― He/she walks slowly.
this
噉唔得㗎！ [Cantonese] ― gam² m⁴ dak¹ gaa³! [Jyutping] ― This will not work! / This will not do!
this; like this
佢係一個噉嘅人。 [Cantonese, trad.]
佢系一个噉嘅人。 [Cantonese, simp.]
keoi⁵ hai⁶ jat¹ go³ gam² ge³ jan⁴. [Jyutping]
He/she is this kind of person. (lit."He/she is a this sort of person.")

噉就完咗喇！ [Cantonese] ― gam² zau⁶ jyun⁴ zo² laa⁴! [Jyutping] ― Is that all!? / It's over just like that? (lit. "It ends just like that!?")
in such a way
將朱古力當飯噉食 [Cantonese, trad.]
将朱古力当饭噉食 [Cantonese, simp.]
zoeng¹ zyu¹ gu^2-1 lik^6-1 dong³ faan⁶ gam² sik⁶ [Jyutping]
to eat chocolate as if it was a meal
in that case; then
噉我返去先啦。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
gam² ngo⁵ faan¹ heoi³ sin¹ laa¹. [Jyutping]
I'll be leaving first then.