詹

Translingual

Han character

詹 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓金卜一口 (NCYMR), four-corner 2726₁, composition ⿸厃⿱八言(G) or ⿸厃⿱⿰丿㇄言(HT) or ⿸厃⿱儿言(JK))

Derived characters

• 擔, 膽, 瞻, 檐, 簷, 蟾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1159, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35458
• Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3967, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8A79

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Chinese

trad.		詹
simp. #		詹

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
甔	*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔	*taːm, *taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹	*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	*daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	*tjam, *djam
噡	*tjam
譫	*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhān (zhan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • 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: zim¹
    • Yale: jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyem

Rime
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職廉切
Baxter	tsyem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciam/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛm/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zim1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]am/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjam/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhān
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyem ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]am/
English	garrulous
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	詹
Reading #	1/1
No.	16761
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	詹
Old Chinese	/*tjam/
Notes	段注云當厃聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 詹

1. to talk too much; to be verbose
2. to arrive
3. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

詹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. talk too much
2. verbose

Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen), たん (tan), だん (dan)

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Korean

Hanja

詹 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

1. arrive
2. verbose

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 詹 (chiêm)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation