阽

阽 U+963D, 阽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-963D ← 阼 [U+963C] CJK Unified Ideographs 阾 → [U+963E]

Translingual

Han character

阽 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜口 (NLYR), four-corner 7126₀, composition ⿰阝占)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1348, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41595
• Dae Jaweon: page 1849, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4120, character 6
• Unihan data for U+963D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		阽

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	*ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	*rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	*slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	*tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	*tems, *tʰem
鉆	*tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	*ʔljem, *tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	*tjems, *teːm
苫	*hljem, *hljems
痁	*hljem, *teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	*teːmʔ, *teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	*tiːms, *tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	*teːb, *tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dim³ / jim⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dieng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dim³ / jim⁴
    • Yale: dim / yìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dim³ / jim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dim³ / yim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm³³/, /jiːm²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dieng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: yem

Rime
Character	阽
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
Baxter	yem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/jæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiam/
Li Rong	/iɛm/
Wang Li	/jĭɛm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]em/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lem/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	阽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ yem ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]em/
English	in danger of collapsing
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	阽
Reading #	1/1
No.	16716
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鹽
Old Chinese	/*lem/

Definitions

阽

1. (literary) to approach; to be close to (danger)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “阽”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 51.

Japanese

Kanji

阽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)、てん (ten)
• Kun: くずれかかる (kuzurekakaru)

Korean

Hanja

阽 • (jeom) (hangeul 점)

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