添

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 忝 – to increase by pouring more water in.

Han character

添 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水竹大心 (EHKP), 水一大心 (EMKP), four-corner 3213₃, composition ⿰氵忝)

1. append, add to
2. increase

See also

• 沃

References

• KangXi: page 632, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17698
• Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1639, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6DFB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

添 (Jyutping tim1, Yale tim1)

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Japanese

Kanji

添

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: そえる (soeru), そえ (soe), そう (sou)

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Korean

Hanja

添 (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

添 (Pinyin tiān (tian1), tiàn (tian4), Wade-Giles t'ien¹, t'ien⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

添 (*tem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

添 (thêm, thiêm, thếch)

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