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See also:
U+9F95, 龕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F95

[U+9F94]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9F96]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 212, +6, 22 strokes, cangjie input 人口卜月心 (ORYBP), four-corner 80211, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1537, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48839
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2078, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4805, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+9F95

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𪚕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kʰuːm) : phonetic (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb) + semantic .

Duan Yucai consider it a corrupted form of 𪚕: Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kʰuːm) : phonetic (OC *krɯm) + semantic .

Pronunciation


Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter khom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəm/
Li
Rong
/kʰᴀm/
Wang
Li
/kʰɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ham1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4940
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰuːm/

Definitions

  1. shrine; niche
  2. Alternative form of (to overcome; to suppress)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
がん
Hyōgai
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese (MC khom), later corrupted with voicing.

Pronunciation

Noun

(がん) (gan

  1. alcove for an image

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(gam) (hangeul , revised gam, McCune–Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

  1. niche, shrine