奄

Translingual

Han character

奄 (radical 37 大+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大中田山 (KLWU), four-corner 4071₆, composition ⿱大电)

1. before long, soon, erelong
2. remain, tarry
3. feeble

References

• KangXi: page 250, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5881
• Dae Jaweon: page 510, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 534, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5944

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		奄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn, yān (yan³, yan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ, ㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim¹, jim²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yen³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn²¹⁴/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: yen¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ian
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jim¹, jim²
    • Yale: yīm, yím
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim¹, jim²
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːm⁵⁵/, /jiːm³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (奄, reconstructed)
Character (奄), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 鹽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 衣儉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiᴇmX/	/ʔi̯ɛmX/	/ʔiɛmX/	/ʔiɛmX/	/ʔiamX/	/ĭɛmX/	/ʔjæmX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (奄, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
奄								yǎn								‹ ʔjemX ›								/*ʔ(r)omʔ/								cover
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
奄					14344					奄					談					3					奄					/*qromʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

奄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: えん (en)
• Kun: おおう (oou), たちまち (tachimachi)
• Nanori: あま (ama)

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Korean

Hanja

奄 (eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune-Reischauer ŏm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奄 (ăm)

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