覘

See also: 觇

覘 U+8998, 覘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8998 ← 覗 [U+8997] CJK Unified Ideographs 覙 → [U+8999]

Translingual

Han character

覘 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+5, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 卜口月山山 (YRBUU), four-corner 2661₀, composition ⿰占見)

1. peek
2. spy on, watch
3. investigate

Derived characters

• 𮄗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1134, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34840
• Dae Jaweon: page 1601, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3666, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8998

Chinese

trad.		覘
simp.		觇
alternative forms		䀡 䦓

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	*ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	*rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	*slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	*tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	*tems, *tʰem
鉆	*tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	*ʔljem, *tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	*tjems, *teːm
苫	*hljem, *hljems
痁	*hljem, *teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	*teːmʔ, *teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	*tiːms, *tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	*teːb, *tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chān, zhān (chan¹, zhan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄢ, ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cim¹ / zim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chān
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chan
    • Wade–Giles: chʻan¹
    • Yale: chān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chan
    • Palladius: чань (čanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹
    • Yale: jān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
    • Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cim¹ / zim¹
    • Yale: chīm / jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsim¹ / dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qim¹ / jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/, /t͡siːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trhjem, trhjemH

Rime
Character	覘	覘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	鹽 (154)	鹽 (154)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	丑廉切	丑豔切
Baxter	trhjem	trhjemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰˠiᴇm/	/ʈʰˠiᴇmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰᵚiɛm/	/ʈʰᵚiɛmH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰiæm/	/ȶʰiæmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰjiam/	/ʈʰjiamH/
Li Rong	/ȶʰjɛm/	/ȶʰjɛmH/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭɛm/	/ȶʰĭɛmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯ɛm/	/ȶʰi̯ɛmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chān	chàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cim1	cim3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tems/, /*tʰem/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	覘	覘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16703	16704
Phonetic component	占	占
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	覘	覘
Old Chinese	/*tems/	/*tʰem/

Definitions

覘

1. to spy on; to peek at
2. to observe; to survey

Compounds

• 窺覘 / 窥觇
• 覘候 / 觇候
• 覘兵 / 觇兵
• 覘國 / 觇国
• 覘標 / 觇标

References

• “覘”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

覘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: てん (ten)^{←てん (ten, historical)←てむ (temu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: てん (ten)^{←てん (ten, historical)←てむ (temu, ancient)}
• Kun: うかがう (ukagau, 覘う)^{←うかがふ (ukagafu, 覘ふ, historical)}、のぞく (nozoku, 覘く)

Korean

Hanja

覘 • (jeom) (hangeul 점, revised jeom, McCune–Reischauer chŏm, Yale cem)

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