黕

黕 U+9ED5, 黕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ED5 ← 黔 [U+9ED4] CJK Unified Ideographs 黖 → [U+9ED6]

Translingual

Han character

黕 (Kangxi radical 203, 黑+4, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田火中月山 (WFLBU), four-corner 6431₂, composition ⿰黑冘)

1. dirt, black dirt
2. black

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1519, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48057
• Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4745, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9ED5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		黕

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
冘	*lu, *lum
抌	*lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ
狖	*lus
貁	*lus
耽	*ʔl'uːm
眈	*ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm
酖	*ʔl'uːm
妉	*ʔl'uːm
黕	*ʔl'uːmʔ
衴	*ʔl'uːmʔ
瓭	*ʔl'uːmʔ
馾	*ʔl'uːms
髧	*l'uːmʔ
紞	*ʔl'oːmʔ
鈂	*zlum, *l'um
沈	*l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ
沉	*l'um
枕	*l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums
莐	*l'um
霃	*l'um
鴆	*l'ums
訦	*ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ
忱	*ɦljum
邥	*hljumʔ
魫	*hljumʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎn (dan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dam² / daam²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tan³
    • Yale: dǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daan
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dam² / daam²
    • Yale: dám / dáam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dam² / daam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dem² / dam²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐm³⁵/, /taːm³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tomX

Rime
Character	黕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都感切
Baxter	tomX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/təmX/
Shao Rongfen	/tɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təmX/
Li Rong	/tᴀmX/
Wang Li	/tɒmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daam2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːmʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	黕
Reading #	1/1
No.	15245
Phonetic component	冘
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	黕
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'uːmʔ/

Definitions

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References

• “黕”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

黕

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. red

Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan), とん (ton), ちん (chin)
• Kun: あか (aka)

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Korean

Hanja

黕 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam)

1. dirt
2. get dirty