耽

See also: 躭

Translingual

Han character

耽 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸十中月山 (SJLBU), four-corner 1411₂, composition ⿰耳冘)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 966, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29024
• Dae Jaweon: page 1414, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2786, character 1
• Unihan data for U+803D

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Chinese

trad.		耽
simp. #		耽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 耽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tam

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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/
• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: tom, tomX

Rime
Character	耽	耽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	丁含切	都感切
Baxter	tom	tomX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʌm/	/tʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/təm/	/təmX/
Shao Rongfen	/tɒm/	/tɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təm/	/təmX/
Li Rong	/tᴀm/	/tᴀmX/
Wang Li	/tɒm/	/tɒmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tăm/	/tămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dān	dǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daam1	daam2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t-q]ˤ[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	耽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dān
Middle Chinese	‹ tom ›
Old Chinese	/*[t-q]ˁ[ə]m/
English	take pleasure
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	耽
Reading #	1/1
No.	15241
Phonetic component	冘
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	耽
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'uːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 耽

1. to delay; to indulge
2. negligent

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Japanese

Kanji

耽

(Jinmeiyō 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: ふける (fukeru)

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Korean

Hanja

耽 • (tam, dam) (hangeul 탐, 담, revised tam, dam, McCune–Reischauer t'am, tam, Yale tham, tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 耽 (đam, xẩm, đắm)

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