# 眈

| 眈 | U+7708, &#30472; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7708 |
| ← 眇 [U+7707] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 眉 → [U+7709] |

## Translingual
### Han character

眈 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山中月山 (BULBU), four-corner 6401$_2$, composition ⿰目冘)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 802, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23189
* Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2477, character 13
* Unihan data for U+7708

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 眈
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 冘 | *lu, *lum |
| 抌 | *lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ |
| 狖 | *lus |
| 貁 | *lus |
| 耽 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 眈 | *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm |
| 酖 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 妉 | *ʔl'uːm |
| 黕 | *ʔl'uːmʔ |
| 衴 | *ʔl'uːmʔ |
| 瓭 | *ʔl'uːmʔ |
| 馾 | *ʔl'uːms |
| 髧 | *l'uːmʔ |
| 紞 | *ʔl'oːmʔ |
| 鈂 | *zlum, *l'um |
| 沈 | *l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ |
| 沉 | *l'um |
| 枕 | *l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums |
| 莐 | *l'um |
| 霃 | *l'um |
| 鴆 | *l'ums |
| 訦 | *ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ |
| 忱 | *ɦljum |
| 邥 | *hljumʔ |
| 魫 | *hljumʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 冘 (OC *lu, *lum).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dān (dan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): daam$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): dăng
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tam
    (Teochew, Peng'im): dam$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dān
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dan
*** Wade–Giles: tan$^1$
*** Yale: dān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
*** Palladius: дань (danʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daam$^1$
*** Yale: dāam
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daam$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dam$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːm⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: dăng
*** Sinological IPA : /taŋ⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tam
*** Tâi-lô: tam
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dafm
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tam³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: dam$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tam
*** Sinological IPA : /tam³³/
* Middle Chinese: dom, tom
Rime :
| Character | 眈 | 眈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 覃 (159) | 覃 (159) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 徒含切 | 丁含切 |
| Baxter | dom | tom |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /dʌm/ | /tʌm/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /dəm/ | /təm/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dɒm/ | /tɒm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dəm/ | /təm/ |
| Li Rong | /dᴀm/ | /tᴀm/ |
| Wang Li | /dɒm/ | /tɒm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /dʱăm/ | /tăm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tán | dān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | taam$^4$ | daam$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'uːm/, /*ʔl'uːmʔ/, /*l'uːm/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 眈 | 眈 | 眈 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 15242 | 15246 | 15250 |
| Phonetic component | 冘 | 冘 | 冘 |
| Rime group | 侵 | 侵 | 侵 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 耽 | 黕 | 覃 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔl'uːm/ | /*ʔl'uːmʔ/ | /*l'uːm/ |
| Notes | | 由耽依集韻校改 | |

### Definitions

眈
* Used in 眈眈 (dāndān).
* to stare at

### Compounds

* 眈天望地
* 眈眈 (dāndān)
* 虎視眈眈／虎视眈眈 (hǔshìdāndān)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: とん (ton)
* Kan-on: たん (tan)
* Kun: にらむ (niramu, 眈む)

## Korean
### Hanja

眈 (eumhun 노려볼 탐 (noryeobol tam))
* hanja form of 탐 (“to stare at”)

#### Compounds

* 호시탐탐 (虎視眈眈, hositamtam)