喑

Translingual

Han character

喑 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口卜廿日 (RYTA), four-corner 6006₁, composition ⿰口音)

1. the sobbing of infants
2. cry ceaselessly
3. mute, dumb

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 198, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3934
• Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 659, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5591

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
諳	*qɯːm
腤	*qɯːm
嬜	*qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑	*qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯	*qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗	*qɯːms
闇	*qɯːms
黯	*qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆	*qʰrɯm
愔	*qɯm
韾	*qɯm
音	*qrɯm
瘖	*qrɯm
窨	*qrɯms
湆	*kʰrɯb

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīn (yin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngam⁶ / jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yin
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹
    • Yale: yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: in
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ngam⁶ / jam¹
    • Yale: ngahm / yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngam⁶ / jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngem⁶ / yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐm²²/, /jɐm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'im, 'om, 'imH

Rime
Character	喑	喑	喑
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)	覃 (159)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I	III
Fanqie	於金切	烏含切	於禁切
Baxter	'im	'om	'imH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiɪm/	/ʔʌm/	/ʔˠiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚim/	/ʔəm/	/ʔᵚimH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiem/	/ʔɒm/	/ʔiemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjim/	/ʔəm/	/ʔjimH/
Li Rong	/ʔjəm/	/ʔᴀm/	/ʔjəmH/
Wang Li	/ĭĕm/	/ɒm/	/ĭĕmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əm/	/ʔăm/	/ʔi̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīn	ān	yìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam1	am1	jam3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯːm/, /*qrɯm/, /*qrɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	喑	喑	喑
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	15209	15226	15228
Phonetic component	音	音	音
Rime group	侵	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	諳	音	蔭
Old Chinese	/*qɯːm/	/*qrɯm/	/*qrɯms/

Definitions

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Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 喑 – see 瘖 (“mute; dumb; speechless”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 瘖).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “喑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

喑

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to be dumb
2. the sobbing of infants

Readings

• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: いん (in)
• On: あん (an)
• Kun: おし (oshi); さけぶ (sakebu, 喑ぶ); だまる (damaru, 喑る); なく (naku, 喑く); あつるさま (atsurusama)

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Korean

Hanja

喑 • (eum) (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune–Reischauer ŭm)

1. deaf mute
2. cry ceaselessly

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 喑 (ầm)

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