唸

See also: 念

Translingual

Han character

唸 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口人戈心 (ROIP), four-corner 6803₂, composition ⿰口念)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 194, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3773
• Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 644, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5538

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (念) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
淰	*rnɯːmʔ, *nɯːmʔ, *hnjɯmʔ
唸	*tɯːms, *tɯːns
埝	*tɯːms, *nɯːb
趝	*klɯːms, *n̥ʰɯːms
諗	*hnjɯmʔ
稔	*njɯːm
棯	*njɯmʔ
腍	*njɯmʔ
捻	*nɯːb
錜	*nɯːb
敜	*nɯːb
惗	*nɯːb, *sens
菍	*nɯːb, *nɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tɯːms, *tɯːns) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 念 (OC *nɯːms, “to read”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 唸 – see 念 (“to read aloud; to chant”). (This character is a variant form of 念).

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Japanese

Kanji

唸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. groan, roar

Readings

• Go-on: てん (ten)^{←てん (ten, historical)←てむ (temu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: てん (ten)^{←てん (ten, historical)←てむ (temu, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: ねん (nen)
• Kun: うなり (unari, 唸り); うなる (unaru, 唸る)

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Korean

Hanja

唸 • (jeom, jeon) (hangeul 점, 전, revised jeom, jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏm, chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 唸 (nếm, điếm, điệm, niệm)

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