簟

簟 U+7C1F, 簟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C1F ← 簞 [U+7C1E] CJK Unified Ideographs 簠 → [U+7C20]

Translingual

Han character

簟 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹一田十 (HMWJ), four-corner 8840₆, composition ⿱𥫗覃)

Derived characters

• 㶘

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 899, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26510
• Dae Jaweon: page 1324, character 42
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3014, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7C1F

Chinese

trad.		簟
simp. #		簟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 簟
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鷣	*luː, *lɯm
撢	*l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛	*l̥ʰɯːms
潭	*l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃	*l'ɯːm
鐔	*l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫	*l'ɯːm
橝	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫	*l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂	*l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫	*l'ɯːmʔ
嘾	*l'ɯːmʔ
贉	*l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫	*l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈	*zlɯmʔ
鱏	*ljɯm, *lɯm
簟	*l'ɯːmʔ
驔	*l'ɯːmʔ
磹	*l'ɯːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tim⁵ / dim³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tim⁵ / dim³
    • Yale: tíhm / dim
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tim⁵ / dim³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tim⁵ / dim³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːm¹³/, /tiːm³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiām
    • Tâi-lô: tiām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiam²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiam²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiam³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiam³³/

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• Middle Chinese: demX

Rime
Character	簟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒玷切
Baxter	demX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/demX/
Pan Wuyun	/demX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛmX/
Li Rong	/demX/
Wang Li	/diemX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱiemX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dim6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]ˤimʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːmʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	簟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ demX ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]ˁimʔ/
English	bamboo mat
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	簟
Reading #	1/1
No.	12347
Phonetic component	覃
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	簟
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːmʔ/

Definitions

簟

1. (literary or dialectal) bamboo mat

Compounds

• 冰簟
• 簟子
• 簟茀 (diànfú)

Japanese

Kanji

簟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten)
• Kun: たかむしろ (takamushiro)

Korean

Hanja

簟 • (jeom) (hangeul 점, revised jeom, McCune–Reischauer chŏm, Yale cem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

簟: Hán Nôm readings: điệm

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