Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 嵁

Modern (Beijing) reading: kān

Preclassic Old Chinese: khǝ̄m

Classic Old Chinese: khǝ̄m

Western Han Chinese: khǝ̄m

Eastern Han Chinese: khǝ̄m

Early Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄m

Middle Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄m

Late Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄m

Middle Chinese: khʌm

English meaning : rocky, precipitous [L.Zhou]

Comments: Also read *khrǝ̄m, MC khạ̈m id. During L.Zhou attested only within the die-sheng 嵁嚴 *kh(r)ǝ̄m-ŋǝm id. (whence, through assimilation, two other MC readings: ŋлm and ŋạ̈m); later (Qi) attested also separately. Cf. also 嶔 and 嶔 (the latter word, although very similar both phonetically and semantically, seems to have a different ST etymology).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0658 r

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ghjǝ̄m

Meaning: precipice

Chinese: 嵁 *khrǝ̄m, *khǝ̄m rocky, *khāmʔ precipitous.

Tibetan: khjom-khjom oblique, awry.

Kachin: ngam² precipitous, precipice, kham¹-wam¹ id.

Lushai: khām a precipice, a cliff.

Comments: Sh. 44; Ben. 71. Cf. Kulung khǝmla 'ravine'.