饞

饞

See also: 馋

饞 U+995E, 饞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-995E ← 饝 [U+995D] CJK Unified Ideographs 饟 → [U+995F]

Translingual

Han character

饞 (radical 184, 食+17, 26 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓口戈 (OINRI), four-corner 8771₃, composition ⿰飠毚)

References

• KangXi: page 1427, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44479
• Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4479, character 4
• Unihan data for U+995E

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
纔	*zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm
讒	*zrɯːm, *zraːms
饞	*zrɯːm
毚	*zrɯːm, *zraːm
欃	*zrɯːm, *zraːms
攙	*zrɯːm, *sʰraːm
儳	*zrɯːm, *zrɯːms, *sʰraːms
酁	*zrɯːm
瀺	*zrɯːmʔ
嚵	*sʰraːms, *zraːm, *zlamʔ
巉	*zraːm, *zraːmʔ
劖	*zraːm
艬	*zraːm, *zraːms
鑱	*zraːm, *zraːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zrɯːm) : semantic 飠 (“to eat; food”) + phonetic 毚 (OC *zrɯːm, *zraːm).

Etymology 1

trad.		饞
simp.		馋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chán (chan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): châm / chhâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'an²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charn
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam⁴
    • Yale: chàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰäːm²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: châm
    • Tâi-lô: tsâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sam¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /t͡sam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sam²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhâm
    • Tâi-lô: tshâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhaam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰam¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʒˠɛm/▼

Rime
Character	饞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	咸 (151)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	士咸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒˠɛm/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐᵚæm/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒɐm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐəɨm/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒɐm/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒɐm/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chán

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*zrɯːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	饞
Reading #	1/1
No.	1222
Phonetic component	毚
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	讒
Old Chinese	/*zrɯːm/
Notes	見易林

Definitions

饞

1. gluttonous; greedy
2. lewd; lecherous

Compounds

偷饞抹嘴／偷馋抹嘴 口饞／口馋 嘴饞／嘴馋 (zuǐchán) 眼饞／眼馋 (yǎnchán) 眼饞肚飽／眼馋肚饱

解饞／解馋 貪饞／贪馋 (tānchán) 饕口饞舌／饕口馋舌 饞唾／馋唾 饞嘴／馋嘴 (chánzuǐ)

饞涎／馋涎 饞涎欲垂／馋涎欲垂 饞涎欲滴／馋涎欲滴 饞獠／馋獠 饞癆／馋痨

Etymology 2

trad.		饞
simp.		馋

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (POJ): sâi

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sâi
    • Tâi-lô: sâi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saai
    • IPA (Taipei): /saɪ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /saɪ²³/

Definitions

饞

1. (Min Nan) gluttonous; ravenous

Compounds

枵饞／枵馋

饞食／馋食

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Japanese

Kanji

饞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. gluttonous
2. greedy
3. lewd
4. lecher

Readings

• On (unclassified): さん (san), ぜん (zen)
• Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)

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Korean

Hanja

饞 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

1. gluttonous
2. greedy
3. lewd
4. lecherous

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Vietnamese

Han character

饞 (sàm, thèm, thiểm)

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