# 婪

| 婪 | U+5A6A, &#23146; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A6A |
| ← 婩 [U+5A69] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 婫 → [U+5A6B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

婪 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木木女 (DDV), four-corner 4440$_4$, composition ⿱林女)

#### Derived characters

* 𠼖, 漤, 𩔵, 𪧲

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6436
* Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1056, character 8
* Unihan data for U+5A6A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 婪 | *ɡ·ruːm |
| 惏 | *ɡ·ruːm |
| 啉 | *ɡ·ruːm |
| 漤 | *ɡ·ruːmʔ |
| 醂 | *ɡ·ruːmʔ |
| 林 | *ɡ·rɯm |
| 琳 | *ɡ·rɯm |
| 淋 | *ɡ·rɯm, *ɡ·rɯms |
| 痳 | *ɡ·rɯm |
| 箖 | *ɡ·rɯm |
| 霖 | *ɡ·rɯm |
| 菻 | *ɡ·rɯmʔ, *ɡ·rɯms |
| 罧 | *slɯmʔ, *srɯms |
| 棽 | *r̥ʰɯm, *srɯm |
| 綝 | *r̥ʰɯm |
| 郴 | *r̥ʰɯm |
| 禁 | *krɯm, *krɯms |
| 襟 | *krɯm |
| 僸 | *krɯms, *ŋɡrɯmʔ |
| 澿 | *ɡrɯm |
| 噤 | *ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms |
| 凚 | *ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms |
| 齽 | *ɡrɯms |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·ruːm): phonetic 林 (OC *ɡ·rɯm) + semantic 女 (“woman”). It is believed that greedy emperors have a strong desire for as many women as possible, like trees in a forest.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lán (lan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): laam$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lán
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lán
*** Wade–Giles: lan$^2$
*** Yale: lán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
*** Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /län³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: laam$^4$
*** Yale: làahm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: laam$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lam$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /laːm²¹/
* Middle Chinese: lom
Rime :
| Character | 婪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 盧含切 |
| Baxter | lom |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lʌm/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ləm/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /lɒm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ləm/ |
| Li Rong | /lᴀm/ |
| Wang Li | /lɒm/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /lăm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | laam$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤ[ə]m/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·ruːm/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 婪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lán |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lom › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]ˁ[ə]m/ |
| English | to covet |
| 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 | 婪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8160 |
| Phonetic component | 林 |
| Rime group | 侵 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 婪 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡ·ruːm/ |

### Definitions

婪
* to covet; to be avaricious; to be greedy

### Compounds

* 多婪
* 婪尾酒
* 婪索
* 婪酣
* 菴婪 / 庵婪
* 貪婪 / 贪婪 (tānlán)
* 貪婪無厭 / 贪婪无厌 (tānlánwúyàn)

### References
## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* covetous
* ravenous

#### Readings

* Go-on: らん (ran)
* Kan-on: らん (ran)
* On: りん (rin)
* Kun: むさぼる (musaboru, 婪る)

## Korean
### Hanja

婪 • (ram) (hangeul 람, revised ram, McCune–Reischauer ram)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

婪: Hán Nôm readings: lam
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