詹

詹	U+8A79, 詹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A79

← 詸
[U+8A78]

CJK Unified Ideographs

詺 →
[U+8A7A]

Translingual

Han character

詹 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓金卜一口 (NCYMR), four-corner 2726₁, composition ⿸厃⿱八言(G) or ⿸厃⿱⿰丿㇄言(HT) or ⿸厃⿱儿言(JK))

Derived characters

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1159, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35458
Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3967, character 10
Unihan data for U+8A79

Chinese

trad.		詹
simp. ^#		詹
alternative forms		噡譫／谵

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series () (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): zhān (zhan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): châm

(Hailu, HRS): zham^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): zam¹
Eastern Min (BUC): ciĕng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zieng¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chiam / cham

(Teochew, Peng'im): ziam¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsoe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
  - Wade–Giles: chan¹
  - Yale: jān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
  - Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zim¹
  - Yale: jīm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: jim¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: châm
  - Hakka Romanization System: zam^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zam¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sam²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: zham^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃam⁵³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: zam¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sam⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ciĕng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zieng¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ciang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zieng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam
  - Tâi-lô: tsiam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciafm
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cham
  - Tâi-lô: tsam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zafm
  - IPA (Longyan): /t͡sam³³⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ziam¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiam
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siam³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹tsoe
  - MiniDict: tsoe^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsoe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø⁵³/

Middle Chinese: tsyem

Rime
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職廉切
Baxter	tsyem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciam/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zim¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]am/

(Zhengzhang): /*tjam/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	詹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhān
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyem ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]am/
English	garrulous
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	詹
Reading #	1/1
No.	16761
Phonetic component
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*tjam/
Notes	段注云當厃聲

Definitions

詹

verbose; garrulous
to talk too much; to be verbose
to arrive; to reach
to manage; to administer
alternative form of 瞻 (zhān, “to look upward or forward”)
a surname
詹天佑 ― Zhān Tiānyòu ― Zhan Tianyou (Chinese railroad engineer)

Descendants

→ English: Zhan, Chan, Cham, Chiam, Tsim, Chim

Compounds

詹尹
詹事
詹天佑
詹姆斯 (Zhānmǔsī)
詹氏年鑑 / 詹氏年鉴
詹河 (Zhānhé)
詹詹

References

郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “詹”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 274.
“詹”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

詹

(Hyōgai kanji)

talk too much
verbose

Readings

On (unclassified): せん (sen)、たん (tan)、だん (dan)

Korean

Hanja

詹 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

Vietnamese

Han character

詹: Hán Nôm readings: chiêm

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References

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