覃

Translingual

Han character

覃 (Kangxi radical 146, 襾+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一田日十 (MWAJ), four-corner 1040₆, composition ⿱覀早)

1. reach to, spread to
2. extensive

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1128, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34778
• Dae Jaweon: page 1598, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2807, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8983

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		覃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 覃
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鷣	*luː, *lɯm
撢	*l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛	*l̥ʰɯːms
潭	*l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃	*l'ɯːm
鐔	*l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫	*l'ɯːm
橝	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫	*l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂	*l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫	*l'ɯːmʔ
嘾	*l'ɯːmʔ
贉	*l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫	*l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈	*zlɯmʔ
鱏	*ljɯm, *lɯm
簟	*l'ɯːmʔ
驔	*l'ɯːmʔ
磹	*l'ɯːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴ / cam⁴
• 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 / cam⁴
    • Yale: tàahm / chàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴ / tsam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴ / cem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹/, /t͡sʰɐm²¹/
• 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	覃
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

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N.rˤ[o]m/, /*N-r[a]mʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	覃	覃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tán	yǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ dom ›	‹ yemX ›
Old Chinese	/*N.rˁ[o]m/	/*N-r[a]mʔ/
English	extend, spread	pointed, sharp
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	覃
Reading #	1/1
No.	12320
Phonetic component	覃
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	覃
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 覃

1. long
2. to prolong
3. to extend
4. deep
5. (also pronounced as qín) a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

覃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. deep, extend, large

Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan), えん (en)
• Kun: うまい (umai), のびる (nobiru), ながい (nagai)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 覃 (đàm)

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References

• Nom Foundation