冚

Translingual

Han character

冚 (Kangxi radical 14, 冖+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月山 (BU) or 難月山 (XBU), composition ⿱冖山)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 130, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 303, character 2
• Unihan data for U+519A

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 冖 (“cover”) + 山 (“mountain”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		冚
alternative forms		𢫏 搇／揿 𠖫

Traditionally related to 𠖫 (gǎn, “to cover”) (Bai, 1980; You, 1992).

Bauer (1996) considers this to be part of an area word family in Southeast Asian languages: *khVm ~ *khVp ~ *kVm ~ *kVp ~ *k(h)l/rm/p. It is probably related to 扱 (kap1, “to cover; to imprint”). Compare Min Nan 崁 (khàm, “to cover”), Burmese ခြုံ (hkrum, “to cover; to wrap”), Proto-Tai *hɤmᴮ (“to cover (with cloth)”) (whence Zhuang hoemq and Thai ห่ม (hòm)). The root is found in many Sinitic dialects including Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Wenzhounese.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǎn (kan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄢˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): kam²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): kem²

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): kam³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǎn
    • Wade–Giles: kʻan³
    • Yale: kǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kaan
    • Palladius: кань (kanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kam²
    • Yale: kám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kem²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐm³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: kem²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰem⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: kam³
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰam³¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 冚

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to cover
2. (Cantonese) to cover up; to conceal; to prevent something from being discovered
3. (Cantonese) cover; lid
4. (Cantonese) to slap; to hit with the palm
5. (Cantonese) to raid (an illegal den)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		冚

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): ham⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): ham⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ham⁶
    • Yale: hahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ham⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hem⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐm²²/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: ham⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ham³²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 冚 (Cantonese)

1. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 咸 (“all; entire”).