淊

淊 U+6DCA, 淊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DCA ← 淉 [U+6DC9] CJK Unified Ideographs 淋 → [U+6DCB]

Translingual

Han character

淊 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水弓竹難 (ENHX), four-corner 3717₇, composition ⿰氵臽)

1. to flood

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 629, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17624
• Dae Jaweon: page 1031, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1656, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6DCA

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 淊
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊	*ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	*ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮	*ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	*ljom, *loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yān (yan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yan
    • Wade–Giles: yen¹
    • Yale: yān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ian
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: jim¹
    • Yale: yīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'eam, yemX, 'eamH

Rime
Character	淊	淊	淊
Reading #	1/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	以 (36)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	咸 (151)	鹽 (153)	咸 (151)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	III	II
Fanqie	乙咸切	以冉切	於陷切
Baxter	'eam	yemX	'eamH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛm/	/jiᴇmX/	/ʔˠɛmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæm/	/jiɛmX/	/ʔᵚæmH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɐm/	/jæmX/	/ʔɐmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨm/	/jiamX/	/ʔəɨmH/
Li Rong	/ʔɐm/	/iɛmX/	/ʔɐmH/
Wang Li	/ɐm/	/jĭɛmX/	/ɐmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔăm/	/i̯ɛmX/	/ʔămH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yān	yǎn	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aam1	jim5	aam3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qroːm/, /*qroːms/, /*lomʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淊	淊	淊
Reading #	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	13559	13560	13565
Phonetic component	臽	臽	臽
Rime group	談	談	談
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	𤟟	韽	琰
Old Chinese	/*qroːm/	/*qroːms/	/*lomʔ/

Definitions

淊

1. alternative form of 淹 (yān, “to submerge; to flood”)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàn (han⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: homX

Rime
Character	淊
Reading #	2/4
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡感切
Baxter	homX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəmX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəmX/
Li Rong	/ɣᴀmX/
Wang Li	/ɣɒmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡloːmʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淊
Reading #	1/4
No.	13546
Phonetic component	臽
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	頷
Old Chinese	/*ɡloːmʔ/

Definitions

淊

1. (literary) mire; mud
2. (literary) boiling water used in reeling silk from a cocoon

Compounds

• 淊淊

Japanese

Kanji

淊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)、ごん (gon)、えん (en)、あん (an)

Vietnamese

Han character

淊: Hán Nôm readings: yêm

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References

• Nom Foundation