媅

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 媅
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
湛	*ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um
媅	*ʔl'uːm
黮	*l̥ʰuːmʔ, *l'uːmʔ
糂	*sluːmʔ
堪	*kʰluːm
戡	*kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ
嵁	*kʰluːm, *ŋɡluːm, *ŋɡluːmʔ, *sɡruːmʔ, *kʰruːm
歁	*kʰluːmʔ, *kʰluːb
勘	*kʰluːms
磡	*kʰuːms
墈	*kʰuːms
偡	*r'uːmʔ
碪	*ʔl'um
椹	*ʔl'um
揕	*ʔl'ums
踸	*l̥ʰumʔ
鍖	*l̥ʰumʔ
斟	*kljum
諶	*ɡljum
愖	*ɡljum
瘎	*ɡljum
煁	*ɡljum
甚	*ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums
葚	*ɦljumʔ

Han character

媅 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女廿一女 (VTMV), composition ⿰女甚)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 266, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6479
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1063, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5A85

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		媅

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dan
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹
    • Yale: dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: daam¹
    • Yale: dāam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tom

Rime
Character	媅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	丁含切
Baxter	tom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/təm/
Shao Rongfen	/tɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təm/
Li Rong	/tᴀm/
Wang Li	/tɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/tăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daam1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媅
Reading #	1/1
No.	11267
Phonetic component	甚
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	耽
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'uːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 媅

1. happy
2. pleased
3. to laugh

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 94