殮

See also: 殓

殮 U+6BAE, 殮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BAE ← 殭 [U+6BAD] CJK Unified Ideographs 殯 → [U+6BAF]

殮 U+F9A5, 殮 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9A5 ← 捻 [U+F9A4] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 簾 → [U+F9A6]

Translingual

Han character

殮 (Kangxi radical 78, 歹+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一弓人一人 (MNOMO), four-corner 1828₆, composition ⿰歹僉)

1. to dress a corpse for burial

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 583, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16590
• Dae Jaweon: page 976, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1395, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6BAE

• Unihan data for U+F9A5

Chinese

trad.		殮
simp.		殓

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
厱	*raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
歛	*qʰlaːm
臉	*ɡ·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
醶	*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
鹼	*kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
薟	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
匳	*ɡ·ram
獫	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
蘞	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
籢	*ɡ·ram
斂	*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
瀲	*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
撿	*ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
羷	*ɡ·ramʔ
殮	*ɡ·rams
簽	*skʰlam
僉	*skʰlam
憸	*skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
譣	*skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
檢	*kramʔ
瞼	*kramʔ
儉	*ɡramʔ
顩	*ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
嬐	*ŋramʔ
嶮	*ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
噞	*ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
驗	*ŋrams
險	*qʰramʔ
劒	*kams
劍	*kams
𩏩	*qʰam

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liàn (lian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lim⁵ / lim⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): liam

  (Hailu, HRS): liam^˖

• Eastern Min (BUC): liêng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lieng⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liám / liām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liàn
    • Wade–Giles: lien⁴
    • Yale: lyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liann
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lim⁵ / lim⁶
    • Yale: líhm / lihm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lim⁵ / lim⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lim⁵ / lim⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːm¹³/, /liːm²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liam
    • Hakka Romanization System: liam
    • Hagfa Pinyim: liam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /li̯am⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: liam^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /liam³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: liêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃iɛŋ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: lieng⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: liāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liɛŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: lieng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liɛŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liám / liām
    • Tâi-lô: liám / liām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liarm, liam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liam⁵³/, /liam²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam⁵⁵⁴/, /liam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam⁵³/, /liam²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liam⁵³/, /liam³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liam⁴¹/, /liam³³/

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• Middle Chinese: ljemH

Rime
Character	殮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力驗切
Baxter	ljemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liᴇmH/
Pan Wuyun	/liɛmH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljæmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liamH/
Li Rong	/liɛmH/
Wang Li	/lĭɛmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ɛmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lim6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·rams/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	殮
Reading #	1/1
No.	10198
Phonetic component	僉
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	殮
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·rams/

Definitions

殮

1. to put a dead body into a coffin

Compounds

• 入殮 / 入殓 (rùliàn)
• 含殮 / 含殓
• 埋殮 / 埋殓
• 大殮 / 大殓 (dàliàn)
• 小殮 / 小殓
• 成殮 / 成殓 (chéngliàn)
• 攢殮 / 攒殓
• 收殮 / 收殓 (shōuliàn)
• 棺殮 / 棺殓
• 殮房 / 殓房 (liànfáng)
• 殮殯 / 殓殡
• 殯殮 / 殡殓 (bìnliàn)
• 盛殮 / 盛殓 (chéngliàn)
• 裝殮 / 装殓
• 送殮 / 送殓
• 閉殮 / 闭殓

References

• “殮”, 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–
• William Campbell (1913), A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, pages 443, 444.
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “殮”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “殮”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• “Entry #11441”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “殓”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 138.

Japanese

Kanji

殮

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to encoffin

Readings

• On (unclassified): れん (ren)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 殮める)

Compounds

• 殮葬(れんそう) (rensō, “encoffinment and burial”)

Korean

Hanja

殮 • (ryeom>yeom) (hangeul 렴>염, revised ryeom>yeom, McCune–Reischauer ryŏm>yŏm, Yale lyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

殮: Hán Nôm readings: liệm, liễm, lịm

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