曇

See also: 昙

Translingual

Han character

曇 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日一月戈 (AMBI), four-corner 6073₁, composition ⿱日雲)

1. become cloudy, overcast

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 500, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14172
• Dae Jaweon: page 870, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1536, character 4
• Unihan data for U+66C7

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Chinese

trad.		曇
simp.		昙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
曇	*duːm
壜	*duːm

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 日 + 雲, presumably “sun behind clouds”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²
    • Yale: tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarn
    • Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: taam⁴
    • Yale: tàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâm
    • Tâi-lô: thâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰam²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dom

Rime
Character	曇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒含切
Baxter	dom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/
Wang Li	/dɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*duːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	曇
Reading #	1/1
No.	12353
Phonetic component	曇
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	覃
Old Chinese	/*duːm/
Notes	與黕同源

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 曇

1. ^† cloudy; overcast
2. Used in 曇花／昙花 (tánhuā, “Dutchman's pipe cactus”).

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Japanese

Kanji

曇

(Jōyō kanji)

1. cloudy weather
2. cloud up

Readings

• Go-on: どん (don, Jōyō)^{←どん (don, historical)←どむ (domu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan)^{←たん (tan, historical)←たむ (tamu, ancient)}
• Kun: くもる (kumoru, 曇る, Jōyō)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 曇(くも)らす (kumorasu): to encloud; to make dim or dull
• 曇(くも)らせる (kumoraseru): to cloud; to make dim or dull;
• 曇(くも)り (kumori), 曇(くもり) (kumori): cloudiness; cloudy weather; shadow
• 曇(くも)りがち (kumorigachi): broken cloud; mainly cloudy
• 曇(くも)りガラス (kumorigarasu): frosted glass

• 曇(くも)り勝(が)ち (kumorigachi): mostly cloudy
• 曇(くも)り声(ごえ) (kumorigoe): depressed voice
• 曇(くも)り空(ぞら) (kumorizora): cloudy sky
• 曇(くも)る (kumoru): to become cloudy; to become dim
• 曇度(くもりど) (kumorido): opacity

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Korean

Hanja

曇 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 曇 (đàm)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.