襤

See also: 褴

襤 U+8964, 襤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8964 ← 襣 [U+8963] CJK Unified Ideographs 襥 → [U+8965]

襤 U+F924, 襤 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F924 ← 藍 [U+F923] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 拉 → [U+F925]

Translingual

Han character

襤 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 中尸戈廿 (LSIT) or 中尸一廿 (LSMT), four-corner 3821₇, composition ⿰衤監)

1. ragged, tattered, threadbare

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1126, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34674
• Dae Jaweon: page 1593, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3119, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8964

• Unihan data for U+F924

Chinese

trad.		襤
simp.		褴
alternative forms		𢅡／𫷌

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
藍	*ɡ·raːm
襤	*ɡ·raːm
籃	*ɡ·raːm
懢	*ɡ·raːm, *ɡ·raːms
儖	*ɡ·raːm
蘫	*ɡ·raːm, *qʰlaːms
攬	*ɡ·raːmʔ
欖	*ɡ·raːmʔ
覽	*ɡ·raːmʔ
爁	*ɡ·raːmʔ, *ɡ·raːms, *ɡ·rams
擥	*ɡ·raːmʔ
灠	*ɡ·raːmʔ
濫	*ɡ·raːms, *ɡraːmʔ
嚂	*ɡ·raːms, *kʰlaːms, *qʰlaːmʔ
纜	*ɡ·raːms
監	*kraːm, *kraːms
礛	*kraːm
鑑	*kraːm, *kraːms, *kraːms
艦	*ɡraːmʔ
檻	*ɡraːmʔ, *ɡraːms
壏	*ɡraːmʔ
轞	*ɡraːmʔ
鹽	*ɡ·lam, *ɡ·lams

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·raːm): semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 監 (OC *kraːm, *kraːms).

Etymology

Compare perhaps Burmese ခြမ်း (hkram:, “to halve”) (Luce, 1981).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lán (lan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laam⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lam

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lam⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lán
    • Wade–Giles: lan²
    • Yale: lán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
    • Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /län³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: laam⁴
    • Yale: làahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lam
    • Tâi-lô: lam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lam⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lam⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lâm
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lam⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lam

Rime
Character	襤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	魯甘切
Baxter	lam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lam/
Li Rong	/lɑm/
Wang Li	/lɑm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laam4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	襤
Reading #	1/1
No.	6083
Phonetic component	監
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	藍
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːm/

Definitions

襤

1. garments without hems
2. used in 襤褸／褴褛 (lánlǚ)

Compounds

• 篳路襤褸 / 筚路褴褛 (bìlùlánlǚ)
• 衣衫襤褸 / 衣衫褴褛 (yīshānlánlǚ)
• 褸襤簞瓢 / 褛褴箪瓢
• 襤縷 / 褴缕 (lánlǚ)
• 襤褸 / 褴褛 (lánlǚ)

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 襤

襤

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rag

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: らん (ran)^{←らん (ran, historical)←らむ (ramu, ancient)}
• Kun: ぼろ (boro, 襤)

Compounds

• 襤(らん)衣(い) (ran'i)
• 襤(らん)褸(る) (ranru)

References

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

Korean

Hanja

襤 • (ram>nam) (hangeul 람>남, revised ram>nam, McCune–Reischauer ram>nam, Yale lam>nam)

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