婪

婪	U+5A6A, 婪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A6A

← 婩
[U+5A69]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婫 →
[U+5A6B]

Translingual

Han character

婪 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木木女 (DDV), four-corner 4440₄, composition ⿱林女)

Derived characters

𠼖, 漤, 𩔵, 𪧲

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6436
Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1056, character 8
Unihan data for U+5A6A

Chinese

trad.		婪
simp. ^#		婪
alternative forms		惏

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
婪	*ɡ·ruːm
惏	*ɡ·ruːm
啉	*ɡ·ruːm
漤	*ɡ·ruːmʔ
醂	*ɡ·ruːmʔ
林	*ɡ·rɯm
琳	*ɡ·rɯm
淋	ɡ·rɯm, ɡ·rɯms
痳	*ɡ·rɯm
箖	*ɡ·rɯm
霖	*ɡ·rɯm
菻	ɡ·rɯmʔ, ɡ·rɯms
罧	slɯmʔ, srɯms
棽	r̥ʰɯm, srɯm
綝	*r̥ʰɯm
郴	*r̥ʰɯm
禁	krɯm, krɯms
襟	*krɯm
僸	krɯms, ŋɡrɯmʔ
澿	*ɡrɯm
噤	ɡrɯmʔ, ɡrɯms
凚	ɡrɯmʔ, ɡrɯms
齽	*ɡrɯms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·ruːm): phonetic 林 (OC *ɡ·rɯm) + semantic 女 (“woman”). It is believed that greedy emperors have a strong desire for as many women as possible, like trees in a forest.^[1]

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lán (lan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): laam⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lán
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lán
  - Wade–Giles: lan²
  - Yale: lán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
  - Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /län³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: laam⁴
  - Yale: làahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: laam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lam⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːm²¹/

Middle Chinese: lom

Rime
Character	婪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	盧含切
Baxter	lom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/ləm/
Shao Rongfen	/lɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləm/
Li Rong	/lᴀm/
Wang Li	/lɒm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laam⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤ[ə]m/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·ruːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lán
Middle Chinese	‹ lom ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁ[ə]m/
English	to covet
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	婪
Reading #	1/1
No.	8160
Phonetic component	林
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·ruːm/

Definitions

婪

to covet; to be avaricious; to be greedy

Compounds

多婪
婪尾酒
婪索
婪酣
菴婪 / 庵婪
貪婪 / 贪婪 (tānlán)
貪婪無厭 / 贪婪无厌 (tānlánwúyàn)

References

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Japanese

Kanji

婪

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: らん (ran)
Kan-on: らん (ran)
On: りん (rin)
Kun: むさぼる (musaboru, 婪る)

Korean

Hanja

婪 • (ram) (hangeul 람, revised ram, McCune–Reischauer ram)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婪: Hán Nôm readings: lam

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