懺

See also: 忏 and 懴

Translingual

Han character

懺 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 心人戈一 (POIM), four-corner 9305₀, composition ⿰忄韱)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 408, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11478
• Dae Jaweon: page 750, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2370, character 15
• Unihan data for U+61FA

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Chinese

trad.		懺
simp.		忏*
alternative forms		懴 讖／谶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
讖	*sʰrims
攕	*sreːm
櫼	*sreːm, *ʔsem
懺	*sʰraːms
殲	*ʔsem
瀸	*ʔsem
鑯	*ʔsem
虃	*ʔslem
籤	*sʰem
韯	*sem
纖	*sem
孅	*sem
韱	*sem
襳	*sem, *srem, *srim

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰraːms) : semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 韱 (OC *sem).

Etymology

Clipping of 懺摩 (MC tsrhaemH ma, “repentance”), from Sanskrit क्षमा (kṣamā, “patience; forbearance; indulgence”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 懺

1. to repent
2. to confess on account of repentance

References

• “懺”, 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

懺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ざん (zan); さん (san)
• Kun: くいる (kuiru, 懺いる)

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Korean

Hanja

懺 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

懺 (sám, sắm)

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