唵

唵 U+5535, 唵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5535
← 唴
[U+5534] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 唶 →
[U+5536]

Translingual

Han character

唵 (radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口大中山 (RKLU), four-corner 64016, composition ⿰口奄)

References
  • KangXi: page 193, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3770
  • Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 638, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5535

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 唵

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (奄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
庵 *qoːm, *qoːb
鵪 *qoːm
菴 *qoːm, *qrom
馣 *qoːm
晻 *qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
唵 *qoːmʔ
黤 *qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
埯 *qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
淹 *qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
閹 *qrom, *qromʔ
崦 *qrom
醃 *qrom, *qom
掩 *qromʔ
奄 *qromʔ
罨 *qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
裺 *qromʔ, *qoms
俺 *qromʔ, *qoms
腌 *qom, *qrob, *qob
殗 *qob
餣 *qob

Etymology

The sense "oṃ" is a borrowing from Sanskrit ओम् (om).

Pronunciation
Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 唵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏感切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔəmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔəmX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔᴀmX/
Wang
Li		 /ɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 唵
Reading # 1/1
No. 14333
Phonetic
component		 奄
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 晻
Old
Chinese		 /*qoːmʔ/

Definitions

唵

  1. to eat food from one's hand
  2. (Buddhism) om

Compounds
  • 唵噆

References

Japanese

Kanji
唵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. syllable

Readings

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Etymology
Kanji in this term
唵
おん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

*/om/ → /omu/ → /oɴ/

From Middle Chinese 唵 (MC ʔʌmX), itself a transliteration of Sanskrit ओम् (om).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

Noun

唵 (hiragana おん, katakana オン, rōmaji on)

  1. (Buddhism) om, aum
    Synonym: オーム (ōmu)

Interjection

唵 (hiragana おん, katakana オン, rōmaji on)

  1. (Buddhism) om, aum
    Synonym: オーム (ōmu)

Derived terms

References
  1. “唵”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. “唵”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainiban, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

唵 • (am, om) (hangeul 암, 옴, revised am, om, McCune–Reischauer am, om)

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Vietnamese

Han character

唵 (úm, ướm)

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References
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