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U+9837, 頷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9837

[U+9836]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9838]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 181, +7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人口一月金 (ORMBC) or 難人口一月 (XORMB), four-corner 81686, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1405, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43512
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1922, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4375, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+9837

Chinese

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trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𱂰 “chin”
𩩊

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ) : phonetic (OC *ɡɯːm) + semantic (head).

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gam (jaw; chin; molar) (STEDT).

Bodman (1980) considers it to be the endoactive of (OC *ɡɯːm, “to hold in the mouth”), literally “the thing that holds something in the mouth”.

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • ngâm - “chin”;
  • ngám - “to nod”.
Note:
  • ām/ǎm - vernacular (“neck”);
  • hām/hǎm - literary (other senses).
Note:
  • am6 - vernacular (“neck”);
  • ham5 - literary (other senses).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (159) (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter hom homX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦʌm/ /ɦʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦəm/ /ɦəmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɒm/ /ɣɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəm/ /ɦəmX/
Li
Rong
/ɣᴀm/ /ɣᴀmX/
Wang
Li
/ɣɒm/ /ɣɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣăm/ /ɣămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hán hàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ham4 ham6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ homX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ˁ[ə]mʔ/
English jaw, chin

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6562 6568
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡɯːm/ /*ɡɯːmʔ/

Definitions

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  1. chin; jowl
  2. to nod
      ―  hànshǒu  ―  to nod
  3. (Southern Min) neck
  4. a surname

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. the chin; the lower jaw (あご)
  2. to nod (うなずく)

Readings

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  • Go-on: ごん (gon)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)
  • Kan’yō-on: がん (gan)
  • Kun: あご (ago, )うなずく (unazuku, 頷く)

Korean

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Hanja

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(am) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: hạm, ham, hàm, hợm

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