暫

See also: 暂

Translingual

Han character

暫 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十中日 (JLA), four-corner 5260₂, composition ⿱斬日)

1. temporary

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14120
• Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1533, character 3
• Unihan data for U+66AB

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Chinese

trad.		暫
simp.		暂
alternative forms		蹔／暂

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
慚	*zaːm
慙	*zaːm
鏨	*zaːm, *zaːmʔ, *zaːms, *zeːm, *zamʔ
槧	*zaːmʔ, *sʰam, *sʰams, *zamʔ
暫	*zaːms
蹔	*zaːms
斬	*ʔsreːmʔ
獑	*zeːm, *zaːm
嶃	*zreːmʔ, *zaːm
覱	*ʔsraːms
摲	*sʰraːms
漸	*ʔsam, *zamʔ
塹	*sʰams
壍	*sʰams
嬱	*sʰams
螹	*zam, *zamʔ
蔪	*zamʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàn, zhàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄢˋ, ㄓㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaam⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chām / chiām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsan⁴
    • Yale: dzàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzann
    • Palladius: цзань (czanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sän⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhàn
    • Wade–Giles: chan⁴
    • Yale: jàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jann
    • Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaam⁶
    • Yale: jaahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zam⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːm²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chām
    • Tâi-lô: tsām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zam
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sam²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiām
    • Tâi-lô: tsiām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciam
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siam²²/

Note: chām - literary, chiām - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: dzamH

Rime
Character	暫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	藏濫切
Baxter	dzamH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɑmH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɑmH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zɑmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zamH/
Li Rong	/d͡zɑmH/
Wang Li	/d͡zɑmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱɑmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zaam6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]ˤam-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zaːms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	暫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzamH ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]ˁam-s/
English	suddenly
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	暫
Reading #	1/1
No.	16793
Phonetic component	斬
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	暫
Old Chinese	/*zaːms/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 暫

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Japanese

Kanji

暫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ざん (zan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: しばらく (shibaraku, 暫く)

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Korean

Hanja

暫 • (jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune–Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 暫 (tạm)

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Compounds

• tạm biệt [暫別]