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眈

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眈	U+7708, 眈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7708

← 眇
[U+7707]

CJK Unified Ideographs

眉 →
[U+7709]

Translingual

Han character

眈 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山中月山 (BULBU), four-corner 6401₂, composition ⿰目冘)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 802, character 18
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23189
Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2477, character 13
Unihan data for U+7708

Chinese

simp. and trad.		眈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 眈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 冘 (OC *lu, *lum).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹
Eastern Min (BUC): dăng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tam

(Teochew, Peng'im): dam¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dān
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dan
  - Wade–Giles: tan¹
  - Yale: dān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
  - Palladius: дань (danʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: daam¹
  - Yale: dāam
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dam¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dăng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam
  - Tâi-lô: tam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dafm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tam³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dam¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tam
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tam³³/

Middle Chinese: dom, tom

Rime
Character	眈	眈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒含切	丁含切
Baxter	dom	tom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/	/tʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/	/təm/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/	/tɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/	/təm/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/	/tᴀm/
Wang Li	/dɒm/	/tɒm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱăm/	/tăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	dān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam⁴	daam¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːm/, /*ʔl'uːmʔ/, /*l'uːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	眈	眈	眈
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	15242	15246	15250
Phonetic component	冘	冘	冘
Rime group	侵	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	耽	黕	覃
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'uːm/	/*ʔl'uːmʔ/	/*l'uːm/
Notes		由耽依集韻校改

Definitions

眈

Used in 眈眈 (dāndān).
to stare at

Compounds

眈天望地
眈眈 (dāndān)
虎視眈眈／虎视眈眈 (hǔshìdāndān)

Japanese

Kanji

眈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: とん (ton)^{←とむ (tomu, historical)}
Kan-on: たん (tan)^{←たむ (tamu, historical)}
Kun: にらむ (niramu, 眈む)

Korean

Hanja

眈 (eumhun 노려볼 탐 (noryeobol tam))

hanja form^? of 탐 (“to stare at”)

Compounds

호시탐탐 (虎視眈眈, hositamtam)

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