眈

眈 U+7708, 眈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7708 ← 眇 [U+7707] CJK Unified Ideographs 眉 → [U+7709]

Translingual

Han character

眈 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山中月山 (BULBU), four-corner 6401₂, composition ⿰目冘)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 802, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23189
• Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2477, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7708

Chinese

simp. and trad.		眈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 眈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
冘	*lu, *lum
抌	*lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ
狖	*lus
貁	*lus
耽	*ʔl'uːm
眈	*ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm
酖	*ʔl'uːm
妉	*ʔl'uːm
黕	*ʔl'uːmʔ
衴	*ʔl'uːmʔ
瓭	*ʔl'uːmʔ
馾	*ʔl'uːms
髧	*l'uːmʔ
紞	*ʔl'oːmʔ
鈂	*zlum, *l'um
沈	*l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ
沉	*l'um
枕	*l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums
莐	*l'um
霃	*l'um
鴆	*l'ums
訦	*ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ
忱	*ɦljum
邥	*hljumʔ
魫	*hljumʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 冘 (OC *lu, *lum).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): dăng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tam

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dan
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹
    • Yale: dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daam¹
    • Yale: dāam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam
    • Tâi-lô: tam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dam¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tam
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tam³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dom, tom

Rime
Character	眈	眈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒含切	丁含切
Baxter	dom	tom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/	/tʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/	/təm/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/	/tɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/	/təm/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/	/tᴀm/
Wang Li	/dɒm/	/tɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱăm/	/tăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	dān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4	daam1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːm/, /*ʔl'uːmʔ/, /*l'uːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	眈	眈	眈
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	15242	15246	15250
Phonetic component	冘	冘	冘
Rime group	侵	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	耽	黕	覃
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'uːm/	/*ʔl'uːmʔ/	/*l'uːm/
Notes		由耽依集韻校改

Definitions

眈

1. Used in 眈眈 (dāndān).
2. to stare at

Compounds

• 眈天望地
• 眈眈 (dāndān)
• 虎視眈眈／虎视眈眈 (hǔshìdāndān)

 

Japanese

Kanji

眈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: とん (ton)^{←とむ (tomu, historical)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan)^{←たむ (tamu, historical)}
• Kun: にらむ (niramu, 眈む)

Korean

Hanja

眈 (eumhun 노려볼 탐 (noryeobol tam))

1. Hanja form^? of 탐 (“to stare at”).

Compounds

• 호시탐탐 (虎視眈眈, hositamtam)