暹
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Translingual
Han character
暹 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜日人土 (YAOG), four-corner 36301, composition ⿺辶⿱日隹)
Derived characters
- 𭀌, 𭶤, 𧔷, 𲌣
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 39
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14150
- Dae Jaweon: page 869, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3882, character 6
- Unihan data for U+66B9
Chinese
| trad. | 暹 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 暹 | |
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 日 (“sun”) + 進 (“to advance”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): cim3 / cim1
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): siĕng / sièng
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sieng1
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1shi
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: cim3 / cim1
- Yale: chim / chīm
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsim3 / tsim1
- Guangdong Romanization: qim3 / qim1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiːm³³/, /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siàm
- Hakka Romanization System: xiamˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: xiam2
- Sinological IPA: /si̯am¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: siam
- Sinological IPA: /siam⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- Guangdong: xiam2
- Sinological IPA: /ɕiam¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: sieng1
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: siang
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬiɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: sieng1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬiɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siam
- Tâi-lô: siam
- Phofsit Daibuun: siafm
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /siam³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâm
- Tâi-lô: siâm
- Phofsit Daibuun: siaam
- IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /siam²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siām
- Tâi-lô: siām
- Phofsit Daibuun: siam
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siam³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /siam²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiam
- Tâi-lô: tshiam
- Phofsit Daibuun: chiafm
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiam³³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: siam5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâm
- Sinological IPA (key): /siam⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: sjem
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*sem/
Definitions
暹
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of the sun) to rise
- (historical) the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya; later short for 暹羅／暹罗 (Xiānluó): Siam (former name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia)
- 國中語言，自成音聲，雖近而占城、暹人，皆不通話説。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: c. 1300, 周達觀 / 周达观 (Zhou Daguan), 《真臘風土記 / 真腊风土记》 (The Customs of Cambodia), translation by Peter Harris
- Guózhōng yǔyán, zì chéng yīnshēng, suī jìn ér Zhànchéng, Xiān rén, jiē bùtōng huàshuō. [Pinyin]
- The country's language consists of sounds that are its own, and despite being nearby, neither the Chams nor the Siamese can make themselves understood.
国中语言，自成音声，虽近而占城、暹人，皆不通话说。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Compounds
References
- “暹”, 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–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “暹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 256.
Japanese
Kanji
暹
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
暹 • (seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune–Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- (historical) Siam (former name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia)