譖

See also: 譛 and 谮

譖	U+8B56, 譖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B56

← 譕
[U+8B55]

CJK Unified Ideographs

譗 →
[U+8B57]

Translingual

Han character

譖 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一山日 (YRMUA), four-corner 0566₁, composition ⿰訁朁)

to slander

Derived characters

𥸄

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1181, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35972
Dae Jaweon: page 1644, character 26
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4018, character 6
Unihan data for U+8B56

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
簪	ʔsɯːm, ʔsrɯm
撍	ʔsluːm, ʔsluːmʔ, ʔsluːms, ʔsrum
鐕	*ʔsluːm
憯	sʰluːmʔ, sʰlɯːmʔ
噆	sʰluːmʔ, ʔsluːb
朁	sʰlɯːmʔ, zlam
蠶	*zluːm
蚕	zluːm, hl'iːnʔ
糣	*sluːmʔ
熸	*ʔslom
鬵	zlam, zɯm, *ljɯm
灊	zlam, zɯm, *ljɯm
潛	zlom, zloms
僭	*ʔslɯːms
兓	*sl'ɯm
嶜	*zlum
兂	*ʔsrɯm
譖	*ʔsrums

Etymology 1

trad.		譖
simp.		谮
alternative forms		譛𧮂

Compare perhaps 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums, “needle”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zèn (zen⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zam³ / cam⁶ / cam³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zèn
  - Wade–Giles: tsên⁴
  - Yale: dzèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzenn
  - Palladius: цзэнь (czɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zam³ / cam⁶ / cam³
  - Yale: jam / chahm / cham
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzam³ / tsam⁶ / tsam³
  - Guangdong Romanization: zem³ / cem⁶ / cem³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐm³³/, /t͡sʰɐm²²/, /t͡sʰɐm³³/

Middle Chinese: tsrimH

Rime
Character	譖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	莊蔭切
Baxter	tsrimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃˠiɪm^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂᵚim^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiem^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂjim^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃjəm^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭĕm^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯əm^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zam³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]r[ə]m-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrums/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	譖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zèn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrim^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]r[ə]m-s/
English	accuse
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	譖
Reading #	1/1
No.	6722
Phonetic component	兓
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrums/

Definitions

譖

(literary) to slander

Compounds

媒譖 / 媒谮
掇蜂譖子 / 掇蜂谮子
浸潤之譖 / 浸润之谮
譖人 / 谮人
譖害 / 谮害
譖言 / 谮言
讒譖 / 谗谮

Etymology 2

trad.		譖
simp.		谮
alternative forms		唚／吣噆讖／谶

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): cam³

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cam³
  - Yale: cham
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsam³
  - Guangdong Romanization: cem³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐm³³/

Definitions

譖

(Cantonese) long-winded; garrulous; unnecessarily verbose
佢講嘢又長又譖。 [Cantonese, trad.]
佢讲嘢又长又谮。 [Cantonese, simp.]
keoi⁵ gong² je⁵ jau⁶ coeng⁴ jau⁶ cam³. [Jyutping]
His speaking is long-winded and garrulous.

Compounds

譖氣 / 谮气

References

“譖”, 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

譖

(Hyōgai kanji)

slander

Readings

Go-on: しん (shin)^{←しむ (simu, historical)}
Kan-on: しん (shin)^{←しむ (simu, historical)}
Kun: そしる (soshiru, 譖る)

Korean

Hanja

譖 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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