See also:
U+8CAA, 貪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CAA

[U+8CA9]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8CAB]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 154, +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓金 (OINC), four-corner 80806, composition )

  1. greedy, covet
  2. covetous

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1205, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36680
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3627, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8CAA

Chinese edit

trad.
simp.
 
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Glyph origin edit

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kʰl'uːm) and ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : phonetic (OC *krɯm, open mouth) + semantic (money).

Pronunciation edit



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tʰan⁵⁵/
Harbin /tʰan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tʰan²¹/
Jinan /tʰã²¹³/
Qingdao /tʰã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /tʰan²⁴/
Xi'an /tʰã²¹/
Xining /tʰã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /tʰan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /tʰɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /tʰan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /tʰan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /tʰan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /tʰan⁵⁵/
Kunming /tʰã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /tʰaŋ³¹/
Hefei /tʰæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /tɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /tʰæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /tʰø⁵³/
Suzhou /tʰø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /tʰẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /tʰø³³/
Hui Shexian /tʰɛ³¹/
Tunxi /tʰɔ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /tʰan³³/
Xiangtan /tʰan³³/
Gan Nanchang /tʰɵn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /tʰam⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʰɑm²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰam⁵³/
Nanning /tʰam⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /tʰam⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tʰam⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tʰaŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰam³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ham²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter thom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰəm/
Li
Rong
/tʰᴀm/
Wang
Li
/tʰɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
taam1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tān
Middle
Chinese
‹ thom ›
Old
Chinese
/*r̥ˁ[ə]m/
English to covet

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6552
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰl'uːm/

Definitions edit

  1. to be greedy
    做人不要這麼 [MSC, trad.]
    做人不要这么 [MSC, simp.]
    Zuòrén bùyào zhème tānxīn. [Pinyin]
    Don't be so greedy in life.
  2. to be fond of; to have an insatiable desire for
      ―  tānwán  ―  to be preoccupied with having fun
      ―  tānshuì  ―  to be a lover of sleep
  3. to pursue something (excessively or inappropriately)
    便宜便宜  ―  tānbiànyí  ―  to be anxious to get things on the cheap
    唔好衝紅燈馬路 [Cantonese, trad.]
    唔好冲红灯马路 [Cantonese, simp.]
    m4 hou2 taam1 faai3 cung1 hung4 dang1 gwo3 maa5 lou6 aa3! [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. to embezzle
      ―  tānguān  ―  corrupt official
      ―  tān le jǐ qiān wàn  ―  to have embezzled several hundred million

Synonyms edit

  • (to embezzle):

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. covet
  2. indulge

Readings edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(tam) (hangeul , revised tam, McCune–Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)

  1. Hanja form? of (covetousness, avarice, greed).

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: tham

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.