堪

堪 U+582A, 堪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-582A
← 堩
[U+5829]
CJK Unified Ideographs 堫 →
[U+582B]

Translingual

Han character

堪 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土廿一女 (GTMV), four-corner 44111, composition ⿰土甚)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 233, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5266
  • Dae Jaweon: page 471, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 460, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+582A

Chinese

trad. 堪
simp. # 堪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 堪
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *kʰluːm) and ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 甚 (OC *ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums, “extreme, profound”) — originally meaning “heavy mountain/earthen protrusion”, it later came to signify the act of “enduring” that earth's weight.

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese ခံ (hkam, “to receive; to endure”), Jingpho khàm (“to endure”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 堪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 口含切
Baxter khom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəm/
Li
Rong
/kʰᴀm/
Wang
Li
/kʰɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ham1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 堪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kān
Middle
Chinese
‹ khom ›
Old
Chinese
/*[kʰ]ˁ[ə]m/
English able to bear

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 堪
Reading # 1/1
No. 11271
Phonetic
component
甚
Rime
group
侵
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
龕
Old
Chinese
/*kʰluːm/

Definitions

堪

  1. may; can; to be capable of; to be able to
  2. to bear; to stand; to resist; to endure
    不堪一擊/不堪一击  ―  bùkānyījī  ―  cannot withstand a single blow
  3. (obsolete) protrusion in the earth

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

堪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
堪
かん
Grade: S
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 堪 (MC khom).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Affix

堪(かん) • (kan) 

  1. to bear; to endure
  2. capable

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 堪 (MC khom).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 堪 (eumhun 견딜 감 (gyeondil gam))

  1. Hanja form? of 감 (“to endure; to bear”).
  2. Hanja form? of 감 (“capable”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

堪: Hán Nôm readings: kham, khom, khăm

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