咸

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Usage notes 5.1.2 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戌 (“‘all’”) + 口 (“‘mouth(person)’”)

[edit] Han character

咸 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一口 (IHMR), four-corner 5320₀)

1. together
2. all, completely
3. united
4. salty (only after Chinese Simplified from 鹹)

[edit] Descendants

• 感, 鹹, 諴, 䶢, 箴, 減, 麙, 顑, 椷, 䁍, 葴, 㨔, 緘, 鍼

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 187, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3563
• Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1404, character 2
• Unihan data for U+54B8

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

咸 (traditional 鹹, Yale haam4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

咸

[edit] Readings

• On: かん (kan), げん (gen)
• Kun: みな (mina)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

咸 (hangeul 함, revised ham, McCune-Reischauer ham)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

咸 (traditional 鹹, pinyin xián (xian2), Wade-Giles hsien²)

1. salty, briny
2. salted
3. pickled

咸 (traditional and simplified)

1. together
2. all, completely
3. united

[edit] Usage notes

When used to mean "salty," "briny," "salted," or "pickled," 咸 is used as the simplified character, and 鹹 is used as the traditional character. For all other uses, 咸 is used as both the simplified and traditional form.

[edit] Compounds

• 咸菜
• 咸淡
• 咸蛋
• 咸津津
• 咸肉
• 咸水
• 咸水湖
• 咸丝丝
• 咸盐