晻

晻 U+667B, 晻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-667B ← 智 [U+667A] CJK Unified Ideographs 晼 → [U+667C]

Translingual

Han character

晻 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日大中山 (AKLU), four-corner 6401₆, composition ⿰日奄)

Derived characters

• 𦺽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14013
• Dae Jaweon: page 865, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1517, character 13
• Unihan data for U+667B

Chinese

trad.		晻
simp.		暗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
庵	*qoːm, *qoːb
鵪	*qoːm
菴	*qoːm, *qrom
馣	*qoːm
晻	*qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
唵	*qoːmʔ
黤	*qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
埯	*qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
淹	*qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
閹	*qrom, *qromʔ
崦	*qrom
醃	*qrom, *qom
掩	*qromʔ
奄	*qromʔ
罨	*qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
裺	*qromʔ, *qoms
俺	*qromʔ, *qoms
腌	*qom, *qrob, *qob
殗	*qob
餣	*qob

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): àn (an⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am³ / ngam³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: àn
    • Wade–Giles: an⁴
    • Yale: àn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ann
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: am³ / ngam³
    • Yale: am / ngam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am³ / ngam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: em³ / ngem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm³³/, /ŋɐm³³/

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

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤ[o]m(ʔ)-s/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	晻
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	àn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔomH ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁ[o]m(ʔ)-s/
English	dark
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.

Definitions

晻

1. Alternative form of 暗 (àn, “dark”)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎn (an³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am² / ngam²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎn
    • Wade–Giles: an³
    • Yale: ǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aan
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: am² / ngam²
    • Yale: ám / ngám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am² / ngam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: em² / ngem²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm³⁵/, /ŋɐm³⁵/

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

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• Middle Chinese: 'omX

Rime
Character	晻
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏感切
Baxter	'omX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəmX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəmX/
Li Rong	/ʔᴀmX/
Wang Li	/ɒmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	am2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤ[o]mʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːmʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	晻
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔomX ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁ[o]mʔ/
English	dark
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	晻
Reading #	1/2
No.	14332
Phonetic component	奄
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	晻
Old Chinese	/*qoːmʔ/

Definitions

晻

1. Only used in 晻藹／暗蔼.

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn (yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yen³
    • Yale: yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jim²
    • Yale: yím
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jemX

Rime
Character	晻
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鹽 (154)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	衣儉切
Baxter	'jemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiᴇmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚiɛmX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiæmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjiamX/
Li Rong	/ʔjɛmX/
Wang Li	/ĭɛmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ɛmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qromʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	晻
Reading #	2/2
No.	14348
Phonetic component	奄
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	奄
Old Chinese	/*qromʔ/

Definitions

晻

1. Only used in 晻晻／暗暗.
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 渰 (yǎn, “clouds forming or rising”)
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 奄 (“to cover”)

References

• “晻”, 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

晻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←おん (on, historical)←おむ (omu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: あん (an)^{←あん (an, historical)←あむ (amu, ancient)}
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 晻い)

Compounds

• 晻晻(あんあん) (an'an)

Korean

Hanja

晻 • (am) (hangeul 암)

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