瞻

瞻 U+77BB, 瞻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77BB ← 瞺 [U+77BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 瞼 → [U+77BC]

Translingual

Han character

瞻 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月山弓金口 (BUNCR), four-corner 6706₁, composition ⿰目詹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 818, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23742
• Dae Jaweon: page 1230, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2518, character 9
• Unihan data for U+77BB

Chinese

trad.		瞻
simp. #		瞻
alternative forms		詹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瞻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	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

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjam) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 詹 (OC *tjam)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	瞻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職廉切
Baxter	tsyem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciam/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛm/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zim1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瞻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhān
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyem ›
Old Chinese	/*[t.q]am/
English	see, look at
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	瞻
Reading #	1/1
No.	16760
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	詹
Old Chinese	/*tjam/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhān (zhan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiam

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziam¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹
    • Yale: jān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
    • Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zim¹
    • Yale: jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam
    • Tâi-lô: tsiam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziam¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiam
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siam³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsoe
    • MiniDict: tsoe^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyem

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t.q]am/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjam/

Definitions

瞻

1. to look up or forward
2. to look with reverence; to look up to
3. ^† to observe

Compounds

• 具瞻
• 前瞻性 (qiánzhānxìng)
• 失瞻
• 定步觀瞻／定步观瞻
• 就日瞻雲／就日瞻云
• 屋上瞻烏／屋上瞻乌
• 心瞻魏闕／心瞻魏阙
• 有礙觀瞻／有碍观瞻 (yǒu'àiguānzhān)
• 望杏瞻榆
• 望杏瞻蒲
• 極切瞻韓／极切瞻韩
• 眾所瞻望／众所瞻望
• 眾目具瞻／众目具瞻
• 瞻仰 (zhānyǎng)
• 瞻依
• 瞻前忽後／瞻前忽后
• 瞻前顧後／瞻前顾后 (zhānqiángùhòu)
• 瞻卬
• 瞻天戀闕／瞻天恋阙
• 瞻彼洛矣
• 瞻徇
• 瞻念 (zhānniàn)
• 瞻情顧意／瞻情顾意
• 瞻拜
• 瞻望 (zhānwàng)
• 瞻烏／瞻乌
• 瞻眺
• 瞻禮／瞻礼 (zhānlǐ)
• 瞻謁／瞻谒
• 瞻識／瞻识
• 瞻顧／瞻顾 (zhāngù)
• 觀瞻／观瞻 (guānzhān)
• 陟岵瞻望
• 顧後瞻前／顾后瞻前
• 馬首是瞻／马首是瞻 (mǎshǒushìzhān)
• 高瞻遠矚／高瞻远瞩 (gāozhānyuǎnzhǔ)

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 瞻 – see 䀐 (“(Min Nan) to glance”). (This character is a variant form of 䀐).

Japanese

Kanji

瞻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)
• Kun: みる (miru)

Korean

Hanja

瞻 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瞻 (chiêm)

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