懺

See also: 忏 and 懴

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 韱

Han character

懺 (radical 61 心+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 心人戈一 (POIM), four-corner 9305₀, composition ⿰忄韱)

1. regret, repent
2. confess sins

References

• KangXi: page 408, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11478
• Dae Jaweon: page 750, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2370, character 15
• Unihan data for U+61FA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

懺 (simplified 忏, Jyutping caam3, Yale chaam3)

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Japanese

Kanji

懺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ざん (zan), さん (san)
• Kun: くいる (kuiru)

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Korean

Hanja

懺 (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune-Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

懺 (simplified 忏, Pinyin chàn (chan4), Wade-Giles ch'an⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

懺 (sám, sắm)

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