蚶

蚶	U+86B6, 蚶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86B6

← 蚵
[U+86B5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蚷 →
[U+86B7]

Translingual

Han character

蚶 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿一 (LITM), four-corner 5417₀, composition ⿰虫甘)

ark clam

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1079, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32925
Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2841, character 12
Unihan data for U+86B6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蚶
alternative forms		魽／𫠐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
紺	*kɯːms
姏	*mɡaːm
嵌	sɡaːmʔ, kʰraːm
甘	*kaːm
柑	*kaːm
苷	*kaːm
泔	*kaːm
坩	kaːm, kʰaːm
蚶	ɢaːm, ɢaːm
酣	*ɢaːm
甝	*ɢaːm
魽	*ɢaːm
邯	ɡaːm, ɡaːm
鉗	*ɡram
箝	*ɡram
黚	ɡram, ɡrɯm
拑	*ɡram

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢaːm, *ɢaːm): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 甘 (OC *kaːm)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hān (han¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ham¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ham

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hān
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: han
  - Wade–Giles: han¹
  - Yale: hān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: han
  - Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ham¹
  - Yale: hām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ham¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐm⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ham
  - Tâi-lô: ham
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hafm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ham⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ham³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ham⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ham⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ham⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: xam

Rime
Character	蚶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼談切
Baxter	xam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ham/
Li Rong	/xɑm/
Wang Li	/xɑm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɢaːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚶	蚶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3658	3662
Phonetic component	甘	甘
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime		酣
Old Chinese	/*ɢaːm/	/*ɢaːm/
Notes	注亦作魽	同魽

Definitions

蚶

ark clam

Compounds

毛蚶 (máohān)
蚶仔 (ham-á) (Min Nan)
蚶子
蚶田
雕蚶鏤蛤 / 雕蚶镂蛤

References

“蚶”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

蚶

(Hyōgai kanji)

ark shell

Readings

On (unclassified): かん (kan)
Kun: あかがい (akagai)