欿

欿

欿 U+6B3F, 欿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B3F ← 款 [U+6B3E] CJK Unified Ideographs 歀 → [U+6B40]

Translingual

Han character

欿 (radical 76, 欠+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓X弓人 (NXNO), four-corner 2778₂, composition ⿰臽欠)

1. discontented
2. sad
3. gloomy

References

• KangXi: page 569, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16111
• Dae Jaweon: page 957, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2143, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6B3F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		欿

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (臽) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊	*ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	*ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮	*ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	*ljom, *loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǎn (kan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ham²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄢˇ
    • Wade–Giles: k'an³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kaan
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ham²
    • Yale: hám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ham²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hem²
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐm³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦʌm^X/▼

Rime
Character	欿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡感切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəmX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəmX/
Li Rong	/ɣᴀmX/
Wang Li	/ɣɒmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[kʰ]ˤomʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡloːmʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	欿	欿	欿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kǎn	kǎn	kǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ khomX ›	‹ khomX ›	‹ khomX ›
Old Chinese	/*[kʰ]ˁomʔ/	/*[kʰ]ˁomʔ/	/*[kʰ]ˁomʔ/
English	insufficient	despondent	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	欿
Reading #	1/1
No.	13547
Phonetic component	臽
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	頷
Old Chinese	/*ɡloːmʔ/

Definitions

欿

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Compounds

欿傺

欿憾

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Japanese

Kanji

欿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. discontented
2. sad
3. gloomy

Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan), とん (ton), かん (kan), こん (kon)
• Kun: もとめる (motomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

欿 • (gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune–Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

1. sorrowful
2. be full of worries