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U+5556, 啖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5556

[U+5555]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5557]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 30, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口火火 (RFF), four-corner 69089, composition )

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

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 196, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3824
  • Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 646, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5556

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

𱃿

Glyph origin

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (7) (7)
Final () (143) (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter damX damH
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/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱɑmX/ /dʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dàn dàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
daam6 daam6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14301 14306
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/

Definitions

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  1. to eat; to dine
  2. to feed (someone/something)
  3. to entice with the promise of profits; to lure with money
  4. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, Pinghua) Classifier for mouthfuls of things (water, rice, etc.)
    [Cantonese, trad.]
    [Cantonese, simp.]
    ngo5 soeng2 jam2 daam6 seoi2. [Jyutping]
    I want to drink a mouthful of water.
  5. (Cantonese) Classifier for kisses.

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • 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)

Korean

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Hanja

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(dam) (hangeul , revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: dạm, đạm, giảm

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