贍

See also: 赡

贍 U+8D0D, 贍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D0D ← 贌 [U+8D0C] CJK Unified Ideographs 贎 → [U+8D0E]

Translingual

Han character

贍 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月金弓金口 (BCNCR), four-corner 6786₁, composition ⿰貝詹)

1. support, aid
2. to be sufficient
3. rich, elegant

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1212, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36945
• Dae Jaweon: page 1679, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3659, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8D0D

Chinese

trad.		贍
simp.		赡
alternative forms		澹

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
甔	*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔	*taːm, *taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹	*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	*daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	*tjam, *djam
噡	*tjam
譫	*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sim⁶, sin⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
    • Wade–Giles: shan⁴
    • Yale: shàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sim⁶, sin⁶
    • Yale: sihm, sihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sim⁶, sin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xim⁶, xin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːm²²/, /siːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siām
    • Tâi-lô: siām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siam²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siam²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siam³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siam³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyemH

Rime
Character	贍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時豔切
Baxter	dzyemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇmH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛmH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiamH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛmH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sim6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]am-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djams/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyemH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]am-s/
English	sufficient
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	贍
Reading #	1/1
No.	16772
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	贍
Old Chinese	/*djams/

Definitions

贍

1. to provide for; to support; to supply
2. (literary) sufficient; plentiful; rich
3. (of writing) rich; magnificent; knowledgeable

Compounds

• 利喙贍辭／利喙赡辞
• 南贍部洲／南赡部洲
• 學優才贍／学优才赡
• 家給戶贍／家给户赡
• 富贍／富赡
• 敏贍／敏赡
• 救過不贍／救过不赡
• 詞華典贍／词华典赡
• 該贍／该赡
• 豐贍／丰赡
• 賑贍／赈赡
• 贍表子／赡表子
• 贍辭／赡辞
• 贍養／赡养 (shànyǎng)
• 贍養費／赡养费 (shànyǎngfèi)
• 辯贍／辩赡
• 顧贍／顾赡
• 養贍／养赡

 

Japanese

Kanji

贍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen); ぜん (zen)
• Kun: すくう (sukū); たりる (tariru)

Korean

Hanja

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

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