厴

See also: 厣

厴 U+53B4, 厴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53B4 ← 厳 [U+53B3] CJK Unified Ideographs 厵 → [U+53B5]

Translingual

Han character

厴 (Kangxi radical 27, 厂+17, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一大田中 (MKWL), four-corner 7150₆, composition ⿸厭甲)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 163, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3051
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 80, character 21
• Unihan data for U+53B4

Chinese

trad.		厴
simp.		厣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
猒	*qem, *qems
懕	*qem
饜	*qem, *qems
嬮	*qem, *qems, *qeb
厭	*qemʔ, *qems, *qeb
黶	*qemʔ
檿	*qemʔ
魘	*qemʔ, *qeb
厴	*qemʔ
擪	*qemʔ, *qeb
壓	*qreːb
靨	*qeb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qemʔ): phonetic 厭 (OC *qemʔ, *qems, *qeb) + semantic 甲 (“shell”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn (yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yen³
    • Yale: yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jim²
    • Yale: yím
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jiemX

Rime
Character	厴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於琰切
Baxter	'jiemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiᴇmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɛmX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjæmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiamX/
Li Rong	/ʔiɛmX/
Wang Li	/ĭɛmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ɛmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qemʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	厴
Reading #	1/1
No.	14424
Phonetic component	猒
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	黶
Old Chinese	/*qemʔ/

Definitions

厴

1. operculum

Japanese

Kanji

厴

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. shell

Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)

Korean

Hanja

厴 • (yeom) (hangeul 염, revised yeom, McCune–Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

1. shells