# 詹

| 詹 | U+8A79, &#35449; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A79 |
| ← 詸 [U+8A78] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 詺 → [U+8A7A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

詹 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓金卜一口 (NCYMR), four-corner 2726$_1$, composition ⿸厃⿱八言(G) or ⿸厃⿱⿰丿㇄言(HT) or ⿸厃⿱儿言(JK))

#### Derived characters

* 儋 噡 㙴 㜬 嶦 幨 憺 擔 澹 曕 檐 䄡 膽 瞻 䃫 襜 聸 舚 蟾 譫(谵) 贍(赡) 䟋 䠨 韂 䪜 𣠳 黵
* 甔 薝 簷 癚 䦲

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1159, character 13
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35458
* Dae Jaweon: page 1625, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3967, character 10
* Unihan data for U+8A79

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 詹
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | 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 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhān (zhan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zim$^1$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): châm
    (Hailu, HRS): zham$^ˋ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): zam$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): ciĕng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zieng$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chiam / cham
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ziam$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$tsoe
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
*** Wade–Giles: chan$^1$
*** Yale: jān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
*** Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zim$^1$
*** Yale: jīm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzim$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jim$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siːm⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: châm
*** Hakka Romanization System: zam$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: zam$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sam²⁴/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: zham$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃam⁵³/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: zam$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sam⁴⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: ciĕng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sieŋ⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: zieng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siɛŋ⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam
*** Tâi-lô: tsiam
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ciafm
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Longyan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cham
*** Tâi-lô: tsam
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zafm
*** IPA (Longyan): /t͡sam³³⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ziam$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiam
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siam³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$tsoe
*** MiniDict: tsoe$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$tsoe
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: tsyem
Rime :
| Character | 詹 |
| 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 | zim$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]am/
    (Zhengzhang): /*tjam/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 詹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsyem › |
| Old Chinese | /*[t]am/ |
| English | garrulous |
| 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 | 詹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16761 |
| Phonetic component | 詹 |
| Rime group | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 詹 |
| Old Chinese | /*tjam/ |
| Notes | 段注云當厃聲 |

### Definitions

詹
* verbose; garrulous
* to talk too much; to be verbose
* to arrive; to reach
* to manage; to administer
* Alternative form of 瞻 (zhān, “to look upward or forward”)
* a surname
    詹天佑 ― Zhān Tiānyòu ― Zhan Tianyou (Chinese railroad engineer)

#### Descendants

* → English: Zhan, Chan, Cham, Chiam, Tsim, Chim

### Compounds

* 詹尹
* 詹事
* 詹天佑
* 詹姆斯 (Zhānmǔsī)
* 詹氏年鑑／詹氏年鉴
* 詹河 (Zhānhé)
* 詹詹

### References

* 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “詹”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 274.
* “詹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* talk too much
* verbose

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): せん (sen)、たん (tan)、だん (dan)

## Korean
### Hanja

詹 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)
* arrive
* verbose

## Vietnamese
### Han character

詹: Hán Nôm readings: chiêm
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation