鹹

See also: 醎 and 咸

Translingual

Han character

鹹 (Kangxi radical 197, 鹵+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜田戈竹口 (YWIHR), four-corner 2365₀, composition ⿰鹵咸)

Related characters

• 咸 – simplified to an existing character.

See also

• 鹽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1507, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47553
• Dae Jaweon: page 2035, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4610, character 19
• Unihan data for U+9E79

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Chinese

trad.		鹹
simp.		咸*
alternative forms		醎

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
感	*kɯːmʔ
鱤	*kɯːmʔ
顑	*kʰɯːmʔ, *ŋɡrɯːms
轗	*kʰɯːmʔ, *kʰɯːms
撼	*ɡɯːmʔ
憾	*ɡɯːms
喊	*qʰaːmʔ, *qʰrɯːmʔ, *ɡrɯːmʔ
緘	*krɯːm
瑊	*krɯːm, *kjum
黬	*krɯːm, *ŋɡrɯːm
減	*krɯːmʔ, *ɡrɯːmʔ
羬	*ŋɡrɯːm, *ɡram
麙	*ŋɡrɯːm
咸	*ɡrɯːm
鹹	*ɡrɯːm
醎	*ɡrɯːm
諴	*ɡrɯːm
椷	*ɡrɯːm
輱	*ɡrɯːm
鍼	*ɡam, *ɡram, *kjɯm
箴	*kjɯm
葴	*kjɯm
鱵	*kjum

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrɯːm) : semantic 鹵 (“salt”) + phonetic 咸 (OC *ɡrɯːm).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hyam (“salty”) (STEDT). Cognate with Chepang ल्‍हाम्‌सा (hlam‑, “salty (not excessively)”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鹹

1. salty; briny
2. salted
3. (Southern Min) stingy; miserly
4. (Cantonese) Short for 鹹濕／咸湿 (haam4 sap1, “erotic; pornographic”).

Synonyms

• (stingy):

(deprecated template usage)

• 吝嗇／吝啬 (lìnsè)
• 小氣／小气 (xiǎoqì)
• 慳吝／悭吝 (qiānlìn) (literary)
• 摳／抠 (kōu)
• 摳門／抠门 (kōumén)
• 窮相／穷相 (qióngxiàng) (literary or regional)
• 鄙吝 (bǐlìn) (literary)

 

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Japanese

Kanji

鹹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. salty

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: しおからい (shiokarai), しおけ (shioke)

Compounds

• 鹹湖(かんこ) (kanko)
• 鹹水(かんすい) (kansui)
• 鹹水湖(かんすいこ) (kansuiko)
• 鹹味(かんみ) (kanmi)
• 半鹹水(はんかんすい) (hankansui)

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Korean

Hanja

鹹 • (ham) (hangeul 함, revised ham, McCune–Reischauer ham, Yale ham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鹹 (hàm)

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