奄

奄 U+5944, 奄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5944
← 奃
[U+5943] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 奅 →
[U+5945]

Translingual

Han character

奄 (radical 37, 大+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大中田山 (KLWU), four-corner 40716, composition ⿱大电(GTJKV) or ⿱大⿻日㇄(T))

References
  • KangXi: page 250, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5881
  • Dae Jaweon: page 510, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 534, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5944

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 奄

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 大 (“big”) + 申 (“extend”) – to cover.

Pronunciation 1
Rime
Character 奄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 衣儉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjiamX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjɛmX/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjemX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔ(r)omʔ/
English cover

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 奄
Reading # 1/1
No. 14344
Phonetic
component		 奄
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 奄
Old
Chinese		 /*qromʔ/

Definitions

奄

  1. † to cover
  2. † hastily; quickly; suddenly

Compounds
  • 奄忽
  • 奄息
  • 奄欻
  • 奄然而逝

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

奄

  1. † feeble
  2. A surname​.

Compounds
  • 一息奄奄
  • 奄奄 (yǎnyǎn)
  • 奄奄無力／奄奄无力
  • 氣息奄奄／气息奄奄

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

奄

  1. † Alternative form of 閹／阉 (yān, “castrate; eunuch”).
  2. † Alternative form of 淹 (yān, “to remain; to tarry”).

Compounds
  • 奄宦
  • 奄尹

Japanese

Kanji
奄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. cover
  2. suffocate
  3. obstruct

Readings

Korean

Hanja

奄 • (eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune–Reischauer ŏm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奄 (ăm)

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