啖

啖

See also: 啗

啖 U+5556, 啖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5556 ← 啕 [U+5555] CJK Unified Ideographs 啗 → [U+5557]

Translingual

Han character

啖 (radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口火火 (RFF), four-corner 6908₉, composition ⿰口炎)

1. eat, feed
2. chew, bite
3. entice

References

• KangXi: page 196, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3824
• Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 646, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5556

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		啖
variant forms		噉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
倓	*l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂	*l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯	*l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼	*l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧	*l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧	*l̥ʰaːms
睒	*l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕	*l̥ʰaːms
談	*l'aːm
郯	*l'aːm
惔	*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟	*l'aːm
淡	*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰	*l'aːm
餤	*l'aːm
啖	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅	*l'aːms
剡	*ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢	*hljamʔ
掞	*hljams
炎	*ɦlam
琰	*lamʔ
棪	*lamʔ
扊	*lamʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daam⁶
    • Yale: daahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /täːm²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam
    • Tâi-lô: tam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /dɑm^X/, /dɑm^H/▼

Rime
Character	啖	啖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒敢切	徒濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑmX/	/dɑmH/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑmX/	/dɑmH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑmX/	/dɑmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/damX/	/damH/
Li Rong	/dɑmX/	/dɑmH/
Wang Li	/dɑmX/	/dɑmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑmX/	/dʱɑmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dàn	dàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-rˤamʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːmʔ/, /*l'aːms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	啖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dàn
Middle Chinese	‹ damX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-rˁamʔ/
English	eat
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	啖	啖
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14301	14306
Phonetic component	炎	炎
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	噉	憺
Old Chinese	/*l'aːmʔ/	/*l'aːms/

Definitions

啖

1. to eat; to dine
2. to feed (someone/something)
3. to entice with the promise of profits; to lure with money
4. Classifier for mouthfuls of things (water, rice, etc.)

Compounds

倒啖蔗 啖名 啖噬 啖指咬舌

啖蔗 啖食 大啖一番

拔葵啖棗／拔葵啖枣 飽啖一頓／饱啖一顿 餐松啖柏

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Japanese

Kanji

啖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だん (dan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: くう (kuu, 啖う); くらわす (kurawasu, 啖らわす)

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Korean

Hanja

啖 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

啖 (dạm, đạm, giảm)

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