咸

See also 或, 鹹, and 㖅

Translingual

simpl.		咸
trad.		咸鹹

Etymology

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

Simplified from 鹹 as well.

Note that 咸 is not derived from 或, and that the characters 口一 are stacked in the opposite order in these characters. Both are ultimately from 戈 (“halberd, spear”).

Han character

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

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

Derived characters

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

咸 (traditional 鹹, Yale haam4)

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Japanese

Kanji

咸

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

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

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.

Compounds

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