# 覃

| 覃 | U+8983, &#35203; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8983 |
| ← 覂 [U+8982] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 覄 → [U+8984] |

## Translingual
### Han character

覃 (Kangxi radical 146, 襾+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一田日十 (MWAJ), four-corner 1040$_6$, composition ⿱覀早)
* reach to, spread to
* extensive

#### Derived characters

* 𪒤, 譚

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1128, character 29
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34778
* Dae Jaweon: page 1598, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2807, character 10
* Unihan data for U+8983

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 覃 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 鷣 | *luː, *lɯm |
| 撢 | *l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ |
| 憛 | *l̥ʰɯːms |
| 潭 | *l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ |
| 譚 | *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ |
| 覃 | *l'ɯːm |
| 鐔 | *l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm |
| 藫 | *l'ɯːm |
| 橝 | *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ |
| 蟫 | *l'ɯːm, *lɯm |
| 燂 | *l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum |
| 醰 | *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms |
| 禫 | *l'ɯːmʔ |
| 嘾 | *l'ɯːmʔ |
| 贉 | *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms |
| 瞫 | *l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ |
| 蕈 | *zlɯmʔ |
| 鱏 | *ljɯm, *lɯm |
| 簟 | *l'ɯːmʔ |
| 驔 | *l'ɯːmʔ |
| 磹 | *l'ɯːms |

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tán (tan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): taam$^4$
* Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): tam$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): thâm
    (Teochew, Peng'im): tam$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tán
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tán
*** Wade–Giles: tʻan$^2$
*** Yale: tán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarn
*** Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰän³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: taam$^4$
*** Yale: tàahm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: taam$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tam$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaːm²¹/
* Hakka
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: tam$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰam¹¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâm
*** Tâi-lô: thâm
*** Phofsit Daibuun: taam
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tʰam²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰam²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: tam$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thâm
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰam⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: dom
Rime :
| Character | 覃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 徒含切 |
| Baxter | dom |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /dʌm/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /dəm/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dɒm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dəm/ |
| Li Rong | /dᴀm/ |
| Wang Li | /dɒm/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /dʱăm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | taam$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*N.rˤ[o]m/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːm/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 覃 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tán |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dom › |
| Old Chinese | /*N.rˁ[o]m/ |
| English | extend, spread |
| 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 | 覃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12320 |
| Phonetic component | 覃 |
| Rime group | 侵 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 覃 |
| Old Chinese | /*l'ɯːm/ |

#### Definitions

覃
* (obsolete) long
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Niǎo nǎi qù yǐ, Hòujì guā yǐ. Shí tán shí xū, jué shēng zǎi lù. [Pinyin]
    When the bird went away, Hou-ji began to wail. His cry was long and loud, So that his voice filled the whole way.
* (obsolete) to spread; to extend
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Gě zhī tán xī, shī yú zhōnggǔ. [Pinyin]
    How the dolichos spread itself out, Extending to the middle of the valley!
* (obsolete) to widely bestow
* (literary) deep; profound
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 研深覃精
* 研精覃奧 / 研精覃奥
* 葛覃
* 覃思 (tánsī)
* 覃恩
* 覃灣 / 覃湾 (Tánwān)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Zhuang Cimz?”)

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qín (qin$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cam$^4$
* Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): qin$^2$
* Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): cing$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qín
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cín
*** Wade–Giles: chʻin$^2$
*** Yale: chín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyn
*** Palladius: цинь (cinʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cam$^4$
*** Yale: chàhm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsam$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cem$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰɐm²¹/
* Hakka
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: qin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰin¹¹/
* Southern Min
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: cing$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshîng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰiŋ⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

覃
* a surname

### Etymology 3

* For pronunciation and definitions of 覃 – see 剡 (“sharp; pointed”). (This character is an obsolete form of 剡).

### References

* “覃”, 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)
* deep, extend, large

#### Readings

* Go-on: どん (don)
* Kan-on: たん (tan)
* Kun: うまい (umai)、のびる (nobiru)、ながい (nagai)

## Korean
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ta̠m]
* Phonetic hangul: [담]

### Hanja

Wikisource 覃 (eum 담 (dam))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

覃: Hán Nôm readings: đàm
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#### References

* Nom Foundation