嗛

嗛 U+55DB, 嗛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DB ← 嗚 [U+55DA] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗜 → [U+55DC]

Translingual

Han character

嗛 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口廿難金 (RTXC), four-corner 6803₇, composition ⿰口兼)

1. bad harvest
2. modest, humble, contended
3. hold in the mouth
4. cheek pouch

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4088
• Dae Jaweon: page 425, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 670, character 11
• Unihan data for U+55DB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嗛

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
譧	*r'eːms
賺	*r'eːms
尲	*kreːm
鹻	*kreːmʔ
歉	*kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏	*kʰreːmʔ
鰜	*ɡreːm, *keːm
稴	*ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉	*ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉	*ɡ·rem
鎌	*ɡ·rem
鬑	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮	*ɡ·rem
簾	*ɡ·rem
薕	*ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊	*ɡ·rem
嬚	*ɡ·remʔ
溓	*ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰	*kʰremʔ
隒	*ŋɡremʔ
熑	*ɡ·reːm
濂	*ɡ·reːm
燫	*ɡ·reːm
兼	*keːm, *keːms
縑	*keːm
鶼	*keːm
蒹	*keːm
搛	*keːm
謙	*kʰeːm
膁	*kʰeːmʔ
嗛	*kʰeːmʔ
慊	*kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔	*kʰeːms
馦	*qʰeːm
嫌	*ɡeːm
鼸	*ɡeːmʔ
尷	*kreːm

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xián, qiàn, qiè, qiǎn (xian², qian⁴, qie⁴, qian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ, ㄑㄧㄢˋ, ㄑㄧㄝˋ, ㄑㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): him², him¹, ham⁴, haam⁴, hip³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xián
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sián
    • Wade–Giles: hsien²
    • Yale: syán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyan
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciàn
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien⁴
    • Yale: chyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiann
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciè
    • Wade–Giles: chʻieh⁴
    • Yale: chyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chieh
    • Palladius: це (ce)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciǎn
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien³
    • Yale: chyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chean
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: him², him¹, ham⁴, haam⁴, hip³
    • Yale: hím, hīm, hàhm, hàahm, hip
    • Cantonese Pinyin: him², him¹, ham⁴, haam⁴, hip⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: him², him¹, hem⁴, ham⁴, hib³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːm³⁵/, /hiːm⁵⁵/, /hɐm²¹/, /haːm²¹/, /hiːp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: khemX

Rime
Character	嗛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	苦簟切
Baxter	khemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰemX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰemX/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɛmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɛmX/
Li Rong	/kʰemX/
Wang Li	/kʰiemX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰiemX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	him2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːmʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嗛
Reading #	1/1
No.	6073
Phonetic component	兼
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	嗛
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːmʔ/

Definitions

嗛

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References

• “嗛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嗛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. pouch
2. hold
3. content
4. insufficient
5. put in mouth

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken); かん (kan); がん (gan); けふ (kefu)
• Kun: ふくむ (fukumu); うらむ (uramu); へりくだる (herikudaru)

Korean

Hanja

嗛 • (gyeom) (hangeul 겸, revised gyeom, McCune–Reischauer kyŏm)

1. humility
2. bad harvest
3. insufficient
4. regret

Vietnamese

Han character

嗛: Hán Nôm readings: khem

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