喑

喑 U+5591, 喑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5591 ← 喐 [U+5590] CJK Unified Ideographs 喒 → [U+5592]

Translingual

Han character

喑 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口卜廿日 (RYTA), four-corner 6006₁, composition ⿰口音)

1. the sobbing of infants
2. cry ceaselessly
3. mute, dumb

Derived characters

• 𤺵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 198, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3934
• Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 659, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5591

Chinese

simp. and trad.		喑
alternative forms		瘖 噾

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
諳	*qɯːm
腤	*qɯːm
嬜	*qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑	*qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯	*qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗	*qɯːms
闇	*qɯːms
黯	*qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆	*qʰrɯm
愔	*qɯm
韾	*qɯm
音	*qrɯm
瘖	*qrɯm
窨	*qrɯms
湆	*kʰrɯb

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīn (yin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngam⁶ / jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yin
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹
    • Yale: yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: in
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: ngam⁶ / jam¹
    • Yale: ngahm / yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngam⁶ / jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngem⁶ / yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐm²²/, /jɐm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'im, 'om, 'imH

Rime
Character	喑	喑	喑
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)	覃 (159)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I	III
Fanqie	於金切	烏含切	於禁切
Baxter	'im	'om	'imH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiɪm/	/ʔʌm/	/ʔˠiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚim/	/ʔəm/	/ʔᵚimH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiem/	/ʔɒm/	/ʔiemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjim/	/ʔəm/	/ʔjimH/
Li Rong	/ʔjəm/	/ʔᴀm/	/ʔjəmH/
Wang Li	/ĭĕm/	/ɒm/	/ĭĕmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əm/	/ʔăm/	/ʔi̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīn	ān	yìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam1	am1	jam3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯːm/, /*qrɯm/, /*qrɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	喑	喑	喑
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	15209	15226	15228
Phonetic component	音	音	音
Rime group	侵	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	諳	音	蔭
Old Chinese	/*qɯːm/	/*qrɯm/	/*qrɯms/

Definitions

喑

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Compounds

• 喑啞 / 喑哑 (yīnyǎ)
• 喑喑
• 喑嗚 / 喑呜
• 喑嗚叱吒 / 喑呜叱吒
• 喑噁 / 喑恶 (yīnwù)
• 喑惡叱吒 / 喑恶叱吒
• 打耳喑

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 喑 – see 瘖 (“mute; dumb; speechless”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 瘖).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “喑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

喑

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to be dumb
2. the sobbing of infants

Readings

• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: いん (in)
• On: あん (an)
• Kun: おし (oshi)、さけぶ (sakebu, 喑ぶ)、だまる (damaru, 喑る)、なく (naku, 喑く)、あつるさま (atsurusama)

Korean

Hanja

喑 • (eum) (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune–Reischauer ŭm)

1. deaf mute
2. cry ceaselessly

Tày

Noun

喑 (ám)

1. Nôm form of ám (“piece; crumb”).

   拾喑𱙊鸡尊否平喑蕡大棟

   Slíp ám nựa cáy ton, bấu phính ám bon đại đống

   Ten pieces of capon doesn't equal a taro

Adjective

喑 (ím)

1. Nôm form of ím (“full; satiated”).

   吟欢𦙦󲁵煩吟辛喑𦙶󲁴

   Gằm van săm mí phàn, gằm tăn ím gò ghẻ.

   Courtesy costs nothing.

   (literally, “Sweet words and the heart won't be bothered, stupid words and one's full to the point of slitting one's throat.”)

   𫪄喑𫪄󲁶抉飴粑𫠯𱎋

   kin ím kin lưa, khuýt khỉ bưa lồng lảng

   to eat full and overeat and throw crumbs all over the floor.

   喑咟唃𥃸

   ím pác dác tha

   to have eyes bigger than one's stomach

   (literally, “to have a full stomach but hungry eyes”)

References

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

喑: Hán Nôm readings: ầm

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Zhuang

Adjective

喑

1. Sawndip form of imq (“full; satiated”)

Verb

喑

1. Sawndip form of imq (“to be full; to be satiated”)