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U+764C, 癌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-764C

[U+764B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+764D]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 104, +12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 大口口山 (KRRU), four-corner 00172, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 781, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22538
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1190, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2697, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+764C

Chinese

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simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic + phonetic (OC *ŋrɯːm, *ŋjab); (yán) is a variant of (yán).

Etymology

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From (yán, “cliff; rock, stone”), since some cancers present as lumps or outgrowths on the body.

In Mandarin, this character used to be pronounced identically as (yán). Its pronunciation was changed to ái in December 1962 to avoid the homophony between (yán, “cancer”) and (yán, “inflammation”) (compare 肺炎 (fèiyán, “pneumonia”) and 肺癌 (fèi'ái, “lung cancer”)). The new pronunciation ái stems from dialectal pronunciations of (“rock; cliff”) /ŋai/, influenced by (yá, yái, “cliff”).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. cancer; carcinoma
      ―  áizhèng  ―  cancer
      ―  zhì'ái  ―  to cause cancer
      ―  fèi'ái  ―  lung cancer
    直男  ―  zhínán'ái  ―  male chauvinism (literally, “straight men's cancer”)

Compounds

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References

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  • ”, 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–
  • 普通話異讀詞審音表初稿(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 1

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. cancer

Readings

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  • Go-on: げん (gen)
  • Kan-on: がん (gan)

Compounds

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
がん
Hyōgai
kan'on
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From Middle Chinese .

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(がん) or (ガン) (gan

  1. (medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer
    (かれ)()()(がん)()だ。
    Kare no sobo wa gan de shinda.
    His grandmother died of cancer.
  2. (figurative) cancer
    (ちゅう)(おう)(しゅう)(けん)(たい)(せい)(しゃ)(かい)(がん)なっている
    Chūō shūken taisei wa shakai no gan ni natte iru.
    The centralized administrative system has become a cancer of society.

Usage notes

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese .

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (am am))

  1. hanja form? of (cancer)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Việt readings: nham[1][2][3]
: Nôm readings: nham[1]

  1. chữ Hán form of nham (cancer, mainly in compounds).

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