鹹

See also 咸, and 醎

Translingual

simpl.		咸
trad.		鹹

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 鹵 (“halogen”) + phonetic 咸

Han character

鹹 (radical 197 鹵+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜田戈竹口 (YWIHR), four-corner 2365₀)

1. salty, briny
2. salted
3. pickled

Descendants

• 咸 – simplified to an existing character.

References

• KangXi: page 1507, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47553
• Dae Jaweon: page 2035, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4610, character 19
• Unihan data for U+9E79

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鹹 (simplified 咸, Yale haam4)

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Japanese

Kanji

鹹

1. salty

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: しおからい (shiokarai), しおけ (shioke)

Compounds

• 鹹湖 (かんこ, kanko)
• 鹹水 (かんすい, kansui)
• 鹹水湖 (かんすいこ, kansuiko)
• 鹹味 (かんみ, kammi)
• 半鹹水 (はんかんすい, hankansui)

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Korean

Hanja

鹹 (hangeul 함, revised ham, McCune-Reischauer ham, Yale ham)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鹹 (simplified 咸, pinyin xián (xian2), Wade-Giles hsien²)

See also

• 醎

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Vietnamese

Han character

鹹 (hàm)