譖

See also: 譛 and 谮

譖 U+8B56, 譖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B56 ← 譕 [U+8B55] CJK Unified Ideographs 譗 → [U+8B57]

Translingual

Han character

譖 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一山日 (YRMUA), four-corner 0566₁, composition ⿰訁朁)

1. to slander

Derived characters

• 𥸄

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1181, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35972
• Dae Jaweon: page 1644, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4018, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8B56

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
簪	*ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
撍	*ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
鐕	*ʔsluːm
憯	*sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
噆	*sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
朁	*sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
蠶	*zluːm
蚕	*zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
糣	*sluːmʔ
熸	*ʔslom
鬵	*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
灊	*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
潛	*zlom, *zloms
僭	*ʔslɯːms
兓	*sl'ɯm
嶜	*zlum
兂	*ʔsrɯm
譖	*ʔsrums

Etymology 1

trad.		譖
simp.		谮
alternative forms		譛 𧮂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zèn (zen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zam³, cam⁶, cam³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zèn
    • Wade–Giles: tsên⁴
    • Yale: dzèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzenn
    • Palladius: цзэнь (czɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zam³, cam⁶, cam³
    • Yale: jam, chahm, cham
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzam³, tsam⁶, tsam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zem³, cem⁶, cem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐm³³/, /t͡sʰɐm²²/, /t͡sʰɐm³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrimH

Rime
Character	譖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	莊蔭切
Baxter	tsrimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃˠiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂᵚimH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂjimH/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃjəmH/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭĕmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zam3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]r[ə]m-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrums/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	譖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zèn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrimH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]r[ə]m-s/
English	accuse
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	譖
Reading #	1/1
No.	6722
Phonetic component	兓
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	譖
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrums/

Definitions

譖

1. (literary) to slander

Compounds

• 媒譖／媒谮
• 掇蜂譖子／掇蜂谮子
• 浸潤之譖／浸润之谮
• 譖人／谮人
• 譖害／谮害
• 譖言／谮言
• 讒譖／谗谮

 

Etymology 2

trad.		譖
simp.		谮
alternative forms		唚／吣 噆 讖／谶

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cam³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cam³
    • Yale: cham
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: cem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐm³³/

Definitions

譖

1. (Cantonese) long-winded; garrulous; unnecessarily verbose

   佢講嘢又長又譖。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢讲嘢又长又谮。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ gong² je⁵ jau⁶ coeng⁴ jau⁶ cam³. [Jyutping]

   His speaking is long-winded and garrulous.

Compounds

• 譖氣／谮气

 

References

• “譖”, 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

譖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. slander

Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin)^{←しむ (simu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しん (shin)^{←しむ (simu, historical)}
• Kun: そしる (soshiru, 譖る)

Korean

Hanja

譖 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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