# 檐

| 檐 | U+6A90, &#27280; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A90 |
| ← 檏 [U+6A8F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 檑 → [U+6A91] |

## Translingual
### Han character

檐 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木弓金口 (DNCR), four-corner 4796$_1$, composition ⿰木詹)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 556, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15659
* Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1304, character 4
* Unihan data for U+6A90

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 檐 :
| Warring States | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | 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): yán (yan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jim$^4$ / sim$^4$ / jam$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): yàm
    (Meixian, Guangdong): yam$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): sièng
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): iâm / chîⁿ
    (Teochew, Peng'im): siam$^5$ / zin$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yán
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yán
*** Wade–Giles: yen$^2$
*** Yale: yán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
*** Palladius: янь (janʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jim$^4$ / sim$^4$ / jam$^4$
*** Yale: yìhm / sìhm / yàhm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jim$^4$ / sim$^4$ / jam$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yim$^4$ / xim$^4$ / yem$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːm²¹/, /siːm²¹/, /jɐm²¹/
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
*** Hakka Romanization System: iam$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yam$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /i̯am¹¹/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàm
*** Hakka Romanization System: (r)iam$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yam$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯am¹¹/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: yam$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /iam¹¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sièng
*** Sinological IPA : /sieŋ⁵³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâm
*** Tâi-lô: iâm
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iaam
*** IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iam²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iam¹³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîⁿ
*** Tâi-lô: tsînn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: cvii
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sĩ¹³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sĩ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sĩ²³/
* iâm - literary;
* chîⁿ - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: yem
Rime :
| Character | 檐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 鹽 (153) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 余廉切 |
| Baxter | yem |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiᴇm/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jiɛm/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /jæm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jiam/ |
| Li Rong | /iɛm/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭɛm/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i̯ɛm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jim$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.[ɢ]am/, /*[ɢ][a]m/
    (Zhengzhang): /*lam/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 檐 | 檐 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yán | yán |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yem › | ‹ yem › |
| Old Chinese | /*Cə.[ɢ]am/ | /*[ɢ][a]m/ |
| English | eaves | temple gate |
| 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 | 檐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16773 |
| Phonetic component | 詹 |
| Rime group | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鹽 |
| Old Chinese | /*lam/ |

### Definitions

檐
* eaves of a house
* brim; rim; edge

### Compounds

* 三檐傘 / 三檐伞
* 各人自掃檐前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 / 各人自扫檐前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜
* 屋檐 (wūyán)
* 帳檐 / 帐檐
* 帽檐 (màoyán)
* 廊檐 (lángyán)
* 房檐 (fángyán)
* 檐喙
* 檐子
* 檐廊 (yánláng)
* 檐柱 (yánzhù)
* 檐楯
* 檐溝 / 檐沟
* 檐溜
* 檐牙
* 檐篷 (yánpéng)
* 檐蛇 (jim$^4$ se$^{4-2}$) (Cantonese)
* 檐鈴 / 檐铃
* 檐馬 / 檐马
* 檐龍 / 檐龙
* 步檐
* 滴水檐
* 老貓溜房檐 / 老猫溜房檐
* 茅檐
* 茅檐土壁
* 重檐 (chóngyán)
* 風檐 / 风檐
* 風檐寸晷 / 风檐寸晷
* 飛檐 / 飞檐 (fēiyán)
* 飛檐走壁 / 飞檐走壁 (fēiyánzǒubì)
* 飛檐走脊 / 飞檐走脊

### References

* “檐”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): えん (en)、たん (tan)
* Kun: ひさし (hisashi)

## Korean
### Hanja

檐 (eum 첨 (cheom))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

檐: Hán Nôm readings: diêm, diềm, thềm, thiềm
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#### References

* Nom Foundation