檐

See also: 簷

檐	U+6A90, 檐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A90

← 檏
[U+6A8F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

檑 →
[U+6A91]

Translingual

Han character

檐 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木弓金口 (DNCR), four-corner 4796₁, composition ⿰木詹)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 556, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15659
Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1304, character 4
Unihan data for U+6A90

Chinese

trad.		檐/簷
simp.		檐
2nd round simp.		沿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 檐
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (詹) (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): yán (yan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴ / sim⁴ / jam⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): yàm

(Meixian, Guangdong): yam²
Eastern Min (BUC): sièng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): iâm / chîⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): siam⁵ / zin⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yán
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yán
  - Wade–Giles: yen²
  - Yale: yán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
  - Palladius: янь (janʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jim⁴ / sim⁴ / jam⁴
  - Yale: yìhm / sìhm / yàhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴ / sim⁴ / jam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yim⁴ / xim⁴ / yem⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹/, /siːm²¹/, /jɐm²¹/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
  - Hakka Romanization System: iam^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yam²
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯am¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iam^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yam²
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯am¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yam²
  - Sinological IPA: /iam¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sièng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieŋ⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâm
  - Tâi-lô: iâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iaam
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iam²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iam¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cvii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sĩ¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sĩ²³/

Note:

iâm - literary;
chîⁿ - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: siam⁵ / zin⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâm / tsîⁿ
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /siam⁵⁵/, /t͡sĩ⁵⁵/

Note:

siam5 - literary;
zin5 - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: yem

Rime
Character	檐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	余廉切
Baxter	yem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/jæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiam/
Li Rong	/iɛm/
Wang Li	/jĭɛm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.[ɢ]am/, /*[ɢ][a]m/

(Zhengzhang): /*lam/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	檐	檐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ yem ›	‹ yem ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.[ɢ]am/	/*[ɢ][a]m/
English	eaves	temple gate
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	檐
Reading #	1/1
No.	16773
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鹽
Old Chinese	/*lam/

Definitions

檐

eaves of a house
brim; rim; edge

Compounds

References

“檐”, 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

檐

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): えん (en)、たん (tan)
Kun: ひさし (hisashi)

Korean

Hanja

檐 (eum 첨 (cheom))

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Vietnamese

Han character

檐: Hán Nôm readings: diêm, diềm, thềm, thiềm

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References

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