霪

霪 U+972A, 霪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-972A ← 霩 [U+9729] CJK Unified Ideographs 霫 → [U+972B]

Translingual

Han character

霪 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一月水月土 (MBEBG), four-corner 1011₄, composition ⿱雨淫)

1. long and heavy rain

Derived characters

• 𢺓

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1377, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42430
• Dae Jaweon: page 1887, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4075, character 25
• Unihan data for U+972A

Chinese

trad.		霪
simp. #		霪
alternative forms		䨙 淫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
淫	*lɯm
霪	*lɯm
婬	*lɯm

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yín (yin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yín
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yín
    • Wade–Giles: yin²
    • Yale: yín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yn
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam⁴
    • Yale: yàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yim

Rime
Character	霪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘針切
Baxter	yim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/jim/
Shao Rongfen	/jem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jim/
Li Rong	/iəm/
Wang Li	/jĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	霪
Reading #	1/1
No.	15292
Phonetic component	淫
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	淫
Old Chinese	/*lɯm/

Definitions

霪

1. (literary) long and persistent rain

Compounds

• 霪雨 (yínyǔ)
• 霪霖

Japanese

Kanji

霪

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rain lasting at least ten days

Readings

• Go-on: いん (in)^{←いん (in, historical)←いむ (imu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: いん (in)^{←いん (in, historical)←いむ (imu, ancient)}
• Kun: ながあめ (nagaame, 霪)

Korean

Hanja

霪 • (eum) (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune–Reischauer ŭm, Yale um)

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Vietnamese

Nom glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 淫 (dâm).

Han character

霪: Hán Việt readings: dâm
霪: Nôm readings: dầm, dằm, rầm, dâm, đầm, râm, rườm

1. chữ Nôm form of dâm (“alternative form of râm (“shady”)”)
2. chữ Nôm form of dầm (“to soak; to get soaked”)
3. chữ Nôm form of đầm (“(only in compounds) soaking; sopping wet”)
4. chữ Nôm form of râm (“shady (abounding in shade)”)
5. chữ Nôm form of rườm (“used in rườm rà (“lush”)”)