唵

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Translingual [edit]

Han character [edit]

唵 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口大中山 (RKLU), four-corner 64016)

  1. used in Buddhist texts to transliterate non-Chinese sounds, specifically the ॐ (aum) syllable.
  2. to eat with the hand

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 193, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3770
  • Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 638, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5535

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

唵 (Yale am2)

Japanese [edit]

オム

Kanji [edit]

唵

Readings [edit]

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

唵 (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an)

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

唵 (pinyin ǎn (an3), Wade-Giles an3)

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