檐

See also: 簷

檐	U+6A90, 檐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A90

← 檏
[U+6A8F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

檑 →
[U+6A91]

Translingual

Han character

檐 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木弓金口 (DNCR), four-corner 4796₁, composition ⿰木詹)

References

KangXi: page 556, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15659
Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1304, character 4
Unihan data for U+6A90

Chinese

trad.		檐/簷
simp.		檐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 檐
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
甔	toːm, taːm, *taːms
擔	taːm, taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	taːmʔ, tjamʔ
澹	daːm, daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	daːmʔ, daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	tjam, djam
噡	*tjam
譫	tjam, daːb, *tjaːb
幨	tʰjam, tʰjams
襜	tʰjam, tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	tʰeːm, tʰeːms

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yán (yan²)
(Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴, sim⁴, jam⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): yàm
(Meixian, Guangdong): yam²
Min Dong (BUC): sièng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): iâm / chîⁿ
(Teochew, Peng'im): siam⁵ / zin⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yán
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yán
  - Wade–Giles: yen²
  - Yale: yán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
  - Palladius: янь (janʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jim⁴, sim⁴, jam⁴
  - Yale: yìhm, sìhm, yàhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴, sim⁴, jam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yim⁴, xim⁴, yem⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹/, /siːm²¹/, /jɐm²¹/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
  - Hakka Romanization System: iamˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yam²
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯am¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iamˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yam²
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯am¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yam²
  - Sinological IPA: /iam¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sièng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieŋ⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâm
  - Tâi-lô: iâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iaam
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iam²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iam¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cvii
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡ɕĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕĩ¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕĩ²³/

Note:

iâm - literary;
chîⁿ - vernacular.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: siam⁵ / zin⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâm / tsîⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siam⁵⁵/, /t͡sĩ⁵⁵/

Note:

siam5 - literary;
zin5 - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: /jiᴇm/

Rime
Character	檐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	余廉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/jæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiam/
Li Rong	/iɛm/
Wang Li	/jĭɛm/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.[ɢ]am/, /*[ɢ][a]m/
(Zhengzhang): /*lam/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	檐	檐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ yem ›	‹ yem ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.[ɢ]am/	/*[ɢ][a]m/
English	eaves	temple gate
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	檐
Reading #	1/1
No.	16773
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鹽
Old Chinese	/*lam/

Definitions

檐

eaves of a house
brim; rim; edge

Compounds

屋檐 (wūyán)
帽檐 (màoyán)
廊檐 (lángyán)
房檐 (fángyán)
檐喙
檐子
檐廊 (yánláng)
檐柱 (yánzhù)
檐楯
檐溜

檐牙
步檐
滴水檐
茅檐
茅檐土壁
重檐 (chóngyán)
三檐傘／三檐伞
各人自掃檐前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜／各人自扫檐前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜
帳檐／帐檐
檐溝／檐沟

檐鈴／檐铃
檐馬／檐马
簷蛇／檐蛇 (jim4 se4-2)
老貓溜房檐／老猫溜房檐
風檐／风檐
風檐寸晷／风檐寸晷
飛檐／飞檐 (fēiyán)
飛檐走壁／飞檐走壁
飛檐走脊／飞檐走脊

References

“檐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

檐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): えん (en); たん (tan)
Kun: ひさし (hisashi)

Korean

Hanja

檐 (eum 첨 (cheom))

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Vietnamese

Han character

檐: Hán Nôm readings: diêm, diềm, thềm, thiềm

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References

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