詹

詹 U+8A79, 詹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A79 ← 詸 [U+8A78] CJK Unified Ideographs 詺 → [U+8A7A]

Translingual

Han character

詹 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓金卜一口 (NCYMR), four-corner 2726₁, composition ⿸厃⿱八言(G) or ⿸厃⿱⿰丿㇄言(HT) or ⿸厃⿱儿言(JK))

Derived characters

• 儋 噡 㙴 㜬 嶦 幨 憺 擔 澹 曕 檐 䄡 膽 瞻 䃫 襜 聸 舚 蟾 譫(谵) 贍(赡) 䟋 䠨 韂 䪜 𣠳 黵
• 甔 薝 簷 癚 䦲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1159, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35458
• Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3967, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8A79

Chinese

trad.		詹
simp. #		詹
alternative forms		噡 譫／谵

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
甔	*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔	*taːm, *taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹	*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	*daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	*tjam, *djam
噡	*tjam
譫	*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhān (zhan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): châm

  (Hailu, HRS): zham^ˋ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): zam¹

• Eastern Min (BUC): ciĕng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zieng¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiam / cham

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziam¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹
    • Yale: jān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
    • Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zim¹
    • Yale: jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: châm
    • Hakka Romanization System: zam^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zam¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sam²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: zham^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃam⁵³/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: zam¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sam⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zieng¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ciang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zieng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam
    • Tâi-lô: tsiam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciafm
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cham
    • Tâi-lô: tsam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zafm
    • IPA (Longyan): /t͡sam³³⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziam¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiam
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siam³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsoe
    • MiniDict: tsoe^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyem

Rime
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職廉切
Baxter	tsyem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciam/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zim1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]am/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjam/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhān
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyem ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]am/
English	garrulous
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.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
No.	16761
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	詹
Old Chinese	/*tjam/
Notes	段注云當厃聲

Definitions

詹

1. verbose; garrulous
2. to talk too much; to be verbose
3. to arrive; to reach
4. to manage; to administer
5. alternative form of 瞻 (zhān, “to look upward or forward”)
6. a surname

   詹天佑  ―  Zhān Tiānyòu  ―  Zhan Tianyou (Chinese railroad engineer)

Descendants

• → English: Zhan, Chan, Cham, Chiam, Tsim, Chim

Compounds

• 詹尹
• 詹事
• 詹天佑
• 詹姆斯 (Zhānmǔsī)
• 詹氏年鑑 / 詹氏年鉴
• 詹河 (Zhānhé)
• 詹詹

References

• 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “詹”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 274.
• “詹”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

詹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. talk too much
2. verbose

Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)、たん (tan)、だん (dan)

Korean

Hanja

詹 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

1. arrive
2. verbose

Vietnamese

Han character

詹: Hán Nôm readings: chiêm

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References

• Nom Foundation