庵

庵 U+5EB5, 庵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB5 ← 庴 [U+5EB4] CJK Unified Ideographs 庶 → [U+5EB6]

See also: 菴

Translingual

Han character

庵 (radical 53 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈大中山 (IKLU), four-corner 0021₆, composition ⿸广奄)

References

• KangXi: page 347, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9369
• Dae Jaweon: page 657, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 887, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5EB5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庵
alt. forms		广 菴／庵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奄) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
庵	*qoːm, *qoːb
鵪	*qoːm
菴	*qoːm, *qrom
馣	*qoːm
晻	*qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
唵	*qoːmʔ
黤	*qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
埯	*qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
淹	*qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
閹	*qrom, *qromʔ
崦	*qrom
醃	*qrom, *qom
掩	*qromʔ
奄	*qromʔ
罨	*qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
裺	*qromʔ, *qoms
俺	*qromʔ, *qoms
腌	*qom, *qrob, *qob
殗	*qob
餣	*qob

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ān (an¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am¹
• Min Nan (POJ): am

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: an¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀa̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: am¹
    • Yale: ām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: em¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɐm⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: am
    • Tâi-lô: am
    • Phofsit Daibuun: afm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /am⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /am³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /am⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /am⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /am⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 庵
Mandarin	Beijing	/an⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/an⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/nan²¹/
	Jinan	/ŋã²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ɣã²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/an²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ŋã²¹/
	Xining	/nã⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/an⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ɛ̃n³¹/
	Ürümqi	/an⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ŋan⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/ŋan⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ŋan⁵⁵/ /ian⁵⁵/ 新
	Kunming	/ã̠⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/aŋ³¹/
	Hefei	/ʐæ̃²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɣæ̃¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ŋɑŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ŋæ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ø⁵³/
	Suzhou	/ø⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔẽ̞³³/
	Wenzhou	/ø³³/
Hui	Shexian	/ŋɛ³¹/
	Tunxi	/ŋɛ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ŋan³³/
	Xiangtan	/ŋan³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/ŋɵn⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/am⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/ɑm²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/ɐm⁵⁵/
	Nanning	/ɐm⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/ɐm⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/am⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/aŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ɔŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/am³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/am²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔʌm/, /ʔʌp̚/▼

Rime
Character	庵	庵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	合 (160)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏含切	烏合切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʌm/	/ʔʌp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəm/	/ʔəp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɒm/	/ʔɒp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəm/	/ʔəp̚/
Li Rong	/ʔᴀm/	/ʔᴀp̚/
Wang Li	/ɒm/	/ɒp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔăm/	/ʔăp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ān	e

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːm/, /*qoːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	庵	庵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14328	14358
Phonetic component	奄	奄
Rime group	談	盍
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	諳	姶
Old Chinese	/*qoːm/	/*qoːb/
Notes	見釋名

Noun

庵

1. A dome-shaped grass house.
2. A Buddhist monastery or nunnery.

References

• (Min Nan) Governor-General of Taiwan (1931–1932), Ogawa Naoyoshi, editor, 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]^[1] (in Japanese and Min Nan), volume 1, Taihoku: 同府 [Dōfu], OCLC 25747241, page 23.

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Japanese

Kanji

庵

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): あん (an)
• Kun: いおり (iori)

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Korean

Hanja

庵 • (am)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 암 (revised: am, McCune-Reischauer: am)
  • Name (hangeul): 암자

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: am, im

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