磏

磏 U+78CF, 磏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78CF ← 磎 [U+78CE] CJK Unified Ideographs 磐 → [U+78D0]

Translingual

Han character

磏 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿難金 (MRTXC), four-corner 1863₇, composition ⿰石兼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 834, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24400
• Dae Jaweon: page 1252, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2449, character 10
• Unihan data for U+78CF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		磏

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjam (“sharp, pointed”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián (lian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lim⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lián
    • Wade–Giles: lien²
    • Yale: lyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lim⁴
    • Yale: lìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâm
    • Tâi-lô: liâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liaam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /liam²⁴/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]em/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	磏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lián
Middle Chinese	‹ ljem ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]em/
English	sharp, keen
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.

Definitions

磏

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) red whetstone

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02999

Korean

Hanja

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

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