斂

See also: 歛, 㪘, and 敛

Translingual

Traditional	斂
Shinjitai (extended)	㪘
Simplified	敛

Han character

斂 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人人人大 (OOOK), four-corner 8884₀, composition ⿰僉攵)

Derived characters

• 瀲(𭲠/潋), 𫾛, 𣟺, 𤒦(𬋃), 𢋻, 蘞(蔹), 籢, 𢅸, 𭟠, 𤒥

Related characters

• 歛 (Variant traditional form of 斂)
• 㪘 (Japanese extended shinjitai)
• 敛 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 476, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13407
• Dae Jaweon: page 830, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1478, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6582

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Chinese

trad.		斂/歛*
simp.		敛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 斂
Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
厱	*raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
歛	*qʰlaːm
臉	*ɡ·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
醶	*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
鹼	*kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
薟	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
匳	*ɡ·ram
獫	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
蘞	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
籢	*ɡ·ram
斂	*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
瀲	*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
撿	*ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
羷	*ɡ·ramʔ
殮	*ɡ·rams
簽	*skʰlam
僉	*skʰlam
憸	*skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
譣	*skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
檢	*kramʔ
瞼	*kramʔ
儉	*ɡramʔ
顩	*ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
嬐	*ŋramʔ
嶮	*ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
噞	*ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
驗	*ŋrams
險	*qʰramʔ
劒	*kams
劍	*kams
𩏩	*qʰam

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 斂

1. to draw back; to fold back
2. to collect
3. 35th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "gathering" (𝌨)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01741
• “斂”, 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–
• 普通話异讀詞审音表初稿(第三編) (Third List of Pronunciation Standards for Words with Multiple Readings in Putonghua, Draft, in Chinese), 文字改革 (Script Reform), Issue 85, December 1962, page 4
• 普通话异读词审音表 (in Chinese), 1987, page 28

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Japanese

Shinjitai	㪘
Kyūjitai	斂

Kanji

斂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 㪘)

1. tighten, stiffen

Readings

• Go-on: れん (ren)^{←れん (ren, historical)←れむ (remu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: れん (ren)^{←れん (ren, historical)←れむ (remu, ancient)}
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 斂める)^{←をさめる (wosameru, 斂める, historical)}

Compounds

• 斂葬(れんそう) (rensō, “interment, burial”)

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Korean

Hanja

斂 • (ryeom>yeom) (hangeul 렴>염, revised ryeom>yeom, McCune–Reischauer ryŏm>yŏm, Yale lyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 斂 (kiếm, liễm, liệm)

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References

• Nôm Foundation