饞

See also: 馋

饞	U+995E, 饞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-995E

← 饝
[U+995D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

饟 →
[U+995F]

Translingual

Han character

饞 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+17, 26 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓口戈 (OINRI), four-corner 8771₃, composition ⿰飠毚)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1427, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44479
Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4479, character 4
Unihan data for U+995E

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
纔	zlɯː, zlɯːs, *sraːm
讒	zrɯːm, zraːms
饞	*zrɯːm
毚	zrɯːm, zraːm
欃	zrɯːm, zraːms
攙	zrɯːm, sʰraːm
儳	zrɯːm, zrɯːms, *sʰraːms
酁	*zrɯːm
瀺	*zrɯːmʔ
嚵	sʰraːms, zraːm, *zlamʔ
巉	zraːm, zraːmʔ
劖	*zraːm
艬	zraːm, zraːms
鑱	zraːm, zraːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zrɯːm): semantic 飠 (“to eat; food”) + phonetic 毚 (OC *zrɯːm, *zraːm).

Etymology 1

trad.		饞
simp.		馋
alternative forms		嚵

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chán (chan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caam⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): châm / chhâm

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chán
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chán
  - Wade–Giles: chʻan²
  - Yale: chán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charn
  - Palladius: чань (čanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: caam⁴
  - Yale: chàahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: cam⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: châm
  - Tâi-lô: tsâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zaam
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sam¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /t͡sam²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sam²³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhâm
  - Tâi-lô: tshâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhaam
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰam¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam²⁴/

Middle Chinese: dzream

Rime
Character	饞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	咸 (151)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	士咸切
Baxter	dzream
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒˠɛm/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐᵚæm/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒɐm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐəɨm/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒɐm/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒɐm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caam⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*zrɯːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	饞
Reading #	1/1
No.	1222
Phonetic component	毚
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	讒
Old Chinese	/*zrɯːm/
Notes	見易林

Definitions

饞

gluttonous; greedy
lewd; lecherous

Compounds

偷饞抹嘴 / 偷馋抹嘴
口饞 / 口馋
嘴饞 / 嘴馋 (zuǐchán)
眼饞 / 眼馋 (yǎnchán)
眼饞肚飽 / 眼馋肚饱
解饞 / 解馋 (jiěchán)
貪饞 / 贪馋 (tānchán)
饕口饞舌 / 饕口馋舌
饞唾 / 馋唾
饞嘴 / 馋嘴 (chánzuǐ)
饞涎 / 馋涎
饞涎欲垂 / 馋涎欲垂
饞涎欲滴 / 馋涎欲滴 (chánxiányùdī)
饞獠 / 馋獠
饞癆 / 馋痨

Etymology 2

trad.		饞
simp.		馋

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sâi

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sâi
  - Tâi-lô: sâi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: saai
  - IPA (Taipei): /sai²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sai²³/

Definitions

饞

(Southern Min) gluttonous; ravenous

Compounds

枵饞 / 枵馋
饞食 / 馋食

Japanese

Kanji

饞

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): さん (san)、ぜん (zen)
Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)

Korean

Hanja

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

Vietnamese

Han character

饞: Hán Việt readings: sàm^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
饞: Nôm readings: thèm^[6], thiểm^[7]

chữ Nôm form of thèm (“to want; to crave”)

References

^ Génibrel (1898).
^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
^ Nguyễn (1974).
^ Trần (1999).
^ Trần (2004).
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
^ Hồ (1976).

[genibrel-1] Génibrel (1898).

[Thiều_Chửu_(1942)-2] Thiều Chửu (1942).

[Nguyễn_(1974)-3] Nguyễn (1974).

[Trần_(1999)-4] Trần (1999).

[Trần_(2004)-5] Trần (2004).

[tdcntd-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).

[btcn-7] Hồ (1976).

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