蚶

蚶 U+86B6, 蚶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86B6 ← 蚵 [U+86B5] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚷 → [U+86B7]

Translingual

Han character

蚶 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿一 (LITM), four-corner 5417₀, composition ⿰虫甘)

1. ark clam

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1079, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32925
• Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2841, character 12
• Unihan data for U+86B6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚶
alternative forms		魽／𫠐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
紺	*kɯːms
姏	*mɡaːm
嵌	*sɡaːmʔ, *kʰraːm
甘	*kaːm
柑	*kaːm
苷	*kaːm
泔	*kaːm
坩	*kaːm, *kʰaːm
蚶	*ɢaːm, *ɢaːm
酣	*ɢaːm
甝	*ɢaːm
魽	*ɢaːm
邯	*ɡaːm, *ɡaːm
鉗	*ɡram
箝	*ɡram
黚	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
拑	*ɡram

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢaːm, *ɢaːm): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 甘 (OC *kaːm)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hān (han¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ham¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ham

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: han
    • Wade–Giles: han¹
    • Yale: hān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: han
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ham¹
    • Yale: hām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ham¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ham
    • Tâi-lô: ham
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ham⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ham³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ham⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ham⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ham⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xam

Rime
Character	蚶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼談切
Baxter	xam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ham/
Li Rong	/xɑm/
Wang Li	/xɑm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢaːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚶	蚶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3658	3662
Phonetic component	甘	甘
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	蚶	酣
Old Chinese	/*ɢaːm/	/*ɢaːm/
Notes	注亦作魽	同魽

Definitions

蚶

1. ark clam

Compounds

• 毛蚶 (máohān)
• 蚶仔 (ham-á) (Min Nan)
• 蚶子
• 蚶田
• 雕蚶鏤蛤 / 雕蚶镂蛤

References

• “蚶”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

蚶

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. ark shell

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: あかがい (akagai)