憸

憸 U+61B8, 憸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61B8 ← 憷 [U+61B7] CJK Unified Ideographs 憹 → [U+61B9]

Translingual

Han character

憸 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 心人一人 (POMO), four-corner 9808₆, composition ⿰忄僉)

1. to flatter
2. crafty, having a specious tongue

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 404, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11299
• Dae Jaweon: page 745, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2361, character 9
• Unihan data for U+61B8

Chinese

trad.		憸
simp.		𪫺

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
厱	*raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
歛	*qʰlaːm
臉	*ɡ·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
醶	*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
鹼	*kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
薟	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
匳	*ɡ·ram
獫	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
蘞	*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
籢	*ɡ·ram
斂	*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
瀲	*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
撿	*ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
羷	*ɡ·ramʔ
殮	*ɡ·rams
簽	*skʰlam
僉	*skʰlam
憸	*skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
譣	*skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
檢	*kramʔ
瞼	*kramʔ
儉	*ɡramʔ
顩	*ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
嬐	*ŋramʔ
嶮	*ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
噞	*ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
驗	*ŋrams
險	*qʰramʔ
劒	*kams
劍	*kams
𩏩	*qʰam

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sian
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹
    • Yale: syān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cim¹
    • Yale: chīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjem, tshjem, xjemX, tshjemX

Rime
Character	憸	憸	憸	憸
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	清 (14)	曉 (32)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)	鹽 (153)	鹽 (154)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III	III
Fanqie	息廉切	七廉切	虚檢切	七漸切
Baxter	sjem	tshjem	xjemX	tshjemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇm/	/t͡sʰiᴇm/	/hˠiᴇmX/	/t͡sʰiᴇmX/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛm/	/t͡sʰiɛm/	/hᵚiɛmX/	/t͡sʰiɛmX/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæm/	/t͡sʰjæm/	/xiæmX/	/t͡sʰjæmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siam/	/t͡sʰiam/	/hjiamX/	/t͡sʰiamX/
Li Rong	/siɛm/	/t͡sʰiɛm/	/xjɛmX/	/t͡sʰiɛmX/
Wang Li	/sĭɛm/	/t͡sʰĭɛm/	/xĭɛmX/	/t͡sʰĭɛmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛm/	/t͡sʰi̯ɛm/	/xi̯ɛmX/	/t͡sʰi̯ɛmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān	qiān	xiǎn	qiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sim1	cim1	him2	cim2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*skʰlam/, /*skʰlamʔ/, /*sqʰlam/, /*qʰramʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	憸	憸	憸	憸
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	10205	10207	10208	10224
Phonetic component	僉	僉	僉	僉
Rime group	談	談	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	籤	憸	銛	險
Old Chinese	/*skʰlam/	/*skʰlamʔ/	/*sqʰlam/	/*qʰramʔ/

Definitions

憸

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Compounds

• 㤿憸／㤿𪫺
• 憸人／𪫺人
• 憸佞／𪫺佞
• 憸邪／𪫺邪

 

References

• “憸”, 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

憸

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)、けん (ken)
• Kun: かたよる (katayoru)

Korean

Hanja

憸 • (seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune–Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)

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