檐

See also: 簷

檐 U+6A90, 檐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A90 ← 檏 [U+6A8F] CJK Unified Ideographs 檑 → [U+6A91]

Translingual

Han character

檐 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木弓金口 (DNCR), four-corner 4796₁, composition ⿰木詹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 556, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15659
• Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1304, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A90

Chinese

trad.		檐/簷
simp.		檐
2nd round simp.		沿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 檐
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
甔	*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔	*taːm, *taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹	*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	*daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	*tjam, *djam
噡	*tjam
譫	*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴ / sim⁴ / jam⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yàm

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yam²

• Eastern Min (BUC): sièng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iâm / chîⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siam⁵ / zin⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yán
    • Wade–Giles: yen²
    • Yale: yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: jim⁴ / sim⁴ / jam⁴
    • Yale: yìhm / sìhm / yàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴ / sim⁴ / jam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁴ / xim⁴ / yem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹/, /siːm²¹/, /jɐm²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
    • Hakka Romanization System: iam^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yam²
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯am¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iam^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yam²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯am¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yam²
    • Sinological IPA: /iam¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sièng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâm
    • Tâi-lô: iâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaam
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iam²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iam¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsînn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cvii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sĩ¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sĩ²³/

Note:

• iâm - literary;
• chîⁿ - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siam⁵ / zin⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâm / tsîⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siam⁵⁵/, /t͡sĩ⁵⁵/
Note:
• siam5 - literary;
• zin5 - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: yem

Rime
Character	檐
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): /*Cə.[ɢ]am/, /*[ɢ][a]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lam/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	檐	檐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ yem ›	‹ yem ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.[ɢ]am/	/*[ɢ][a]m/
English	eaves	temple gate
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	檐
Reading #	1/1
No.	16773
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鹽
Old Chinese	/*lam/

Definitions

檐

1. eaves of a house
2. brim; rim; edge

Compounds

• 三檐傘 / 三檐伞
• 各人自掃檐前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 / 各人自扫檐前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜
• 屋檐 (wūyán)
• 帳檐 / 帐檐
• 帽檐 (màoyán)
• 廊檐 (lángyán)
• 房檐 (fángyán)
• 檐喙
• 檐子
• 檐廊 (yánláng)
• 檐柱 (yánzhù)
• 檐楯
• 檐溝 / 檐沟 (yángōu)
• 檐溜
• 檐牙
• 檐篷 (yánpéng)
• 檐蛇 (jim⁴ se^4-2) (Cantonese)
• 檐鈴 / 檐铃
• 檐馬 / 檐马
• 檐龍 / 檐龙
• 步檐
• 滴水檐
• 老貓溜房檐 / 老猫溜房檐
• 茅檐
• 茅檐土壁
• 重檐 (chóngyán)
• 風檐 / 风檐
• 風檐寸晷 / 风檐寸晷
• 飛檐 / 飞檐 (fēiyán)
• 飛檐走壁 / 飞檐走壁 (fēiyánzǒubì)
• 飛檐走脊 / 飞檐走脊

References

• “檐”, 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

檐

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)、たん (tan)
• Kun: ひさし (hisashi)

References

• “^▲檐”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

檐 (eum 첨 (cheom))

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Vietnamese

Han character

檐: Hán Nôm readings: diêm, diềm, thềm, thiềm

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References

• Nom Foundation