探

探	U+63A2, 探 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63A2

← 採
[U+63A1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

掣 →
[U+63A3]

Translingual

Han character

探 (radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手月金木 (QBCD), four-corner 5709₄, composition ⿰扌罙)

Derived characters

𠽄

References

KangXi: page 438, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12276
Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1907, character 6
Unihan data for U+63A2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		探
alt. forms		𢲘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (罙) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
探	l̥ʰuːm, l̥ʰuːms
棎	*ɦljom
賝	*l̥ʰum
琛	*l̥ʰum
穼	*srum
深	hljum, hljums

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 𥥍.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tàn (tan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): taam³, taam¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tâm / tham
Min Nan (POJ): thàm / tham
Wu (Wiktionary): thoe (T2)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: tàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: t'an⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tann
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰa̠n⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: taam³, taam¹
  - Yale: taam, tāam
  - Cantonese Pinyin: taam³, taam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tam³, tam¹
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰɑːm³³/, /tʰɑːm⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tâm / tham
  - Hakka Romanization System: dam´ / tam
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dam¹ / tam⁴
  - IPA: /tam²⁴/, /tʰam⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thàm
  - Tâi-lô: thàm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: taxm
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /tʰam²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰam¹¹/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham
  - Tâi-lô: tham
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tafm
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰam⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: thoe (T2)
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰø³⁴/

Middle Chinese: /tʰʌm/▼

Rime
Character	探
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰəm/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰəm/
Li Rong	/tʰᴀm/
Wang Li	/tʰɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tān

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤ[ə]m/

(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰuːm/, /*l̥ʰuːms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	探
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tān
Middle Chinese	‹ thom ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˤ[ə]m/
English	put the hand into and test
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	探	探
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11249	11250
Phonetic component	罙	罙
Rime group	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	探	僋
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰuːm/	/*l̥ʰuːms/

Definitions

探

to find; to locate
to search; to grope for
to visit

Compounds

Derived terms from 探

Japanese

Kanji

探

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

grope

Readings

Goon: とん (ton)^{←とん (ton, historical)}^{←とむ (tomu, ancient)}
Kan’on: たん (tan, Jōyō)^{←たん (tan, historical)}^{←たむ (tamu, ancient)}
Kun: さがす (sagasu, 探す, Jōyō); さぐる (saguru, 探る, Jōyō)

Korean

Hanja

探 • (tam) (hangeul 탐, revised tam, McCune–Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

探 (thám, phăm, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom, tham)

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.