婪

婪 U+5A6A, 婪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A6A ← 婩 [U+5A69] CJK Unified Ideographs 婫 → [U+5A6B]

Translingual

Han character

婪 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 木木女 (DDV), four-corner 4440₄, composition ⿱林女)

Derived characters

• 𠼖, 漤, 𩔵, 𪧲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6436
• Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1056, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5A6A

Chinese

trad.		婪
simp. #		婪
alternative forms		惏

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
婪	*ɡ·ruːm
惏	*ɡ·ruːm
啉	*ɡ·ruːm
漤	*ɡ·ruːmʔ
醂	*ɡ·ruːmʔ
林	*ɡ·rɯm
琳	*ɡ·rɯm
淋	*ɡ·rɯm, *ɡ·rɯms
痳	*ɡ·rɯm
箖	*ɡ·rɯm
霖	*ɡ·rɯm
菻	*ɡ·rɯmʔ, *ɡ·rɯms
罧	*slɯmʔ, *srɯms
棽	*r̥ʰɯm, *srɯm
綝	*r̥ʰɯm
郴	*r̥ʰɯm
禁	*krɯm, *krɯms
襟	*krɯm
僸	*krɯms, *ŋɡrɯmʔ
澿	*ɡrɯm
噤	*ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms
凚	*ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms
齽	*ɡrɯms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·ruːm): phonetic 林 (OC *ɡ·rɯm) + semantic 女 (“woman”). It is believed that greedy emperors have a strong desire for as many women as possible, like trees in a forest.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lán (lan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laam⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lán
    • Wade–Giles: lan²
    • Yale: lán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
    • Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /län³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: laam⁴
    • Yale: làahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Jinjiang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâm
    • Tâi-lô: lâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: laam
    • Sinological IPA (Jinjiang): /lam²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: lom

Rime
Character	婪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	盧含切
Baxter	lom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/ləm/
Shao Rongfen	/lɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləm/
Li Rong	/lᴀm/
Wang Li	/lɒm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤ[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·ruːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lán
Middle Chinese	‹ lom ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁ[ə]m/
English	to covet
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婪
Reading #	1/1
No.	8160
Phonetic component	林
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	婪
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·ruːm/

Definitions

婪

1. to covet; to be avaricious; to be greedy

Compounds

• 多婪
• 婪尾酒
• 婪索
• 婪酣
• 菴婪 / 庵婪
• 貪婪 / 贪婪 (tānlán)
• 貪婪無厭 / 贪婪无厌 (tānlánwúyàn)

Japanese

Kanji

婪

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. covetous
2. ravenous

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran)
• Kan-on: らん (ran)
• On: りん (rin)
• Kun: むさぼる (musaboru, 婪る)

Korean

Hanja

婪 • (ram) (hangeul 람, revised ram, McCune–Reischauer ram)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婪: Hán Nôm readings: lam

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