Hanja Analyzer
忝

忝 — cheom

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
욕될 첨
Romanization
cheom
English
disgraced; ashamed; self-deprecating
Mandarin
tiǎn
Japanese on'yomi
テン
Japanese kun'yomi
かたじけな.い
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
8
Radical
心 (61, 4 residual)
Phonetic component
天
Unicode
U+5FDD

Parts that make up 忝

  • 夭 일찍죽을 요, 끊어 죽일 오 몸을 굽힌 사람‘요’ 계열의 소리
  • ⺗ 마음 심variant of 心 심장을 본뜬 것느낌과 생각, 마음의 움직임

How 忝 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 忝 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 天, 心.

Japanese words with 忝

  • 忝いかたじけない grateful; indebted
  • 忝涙かたじけなみだ tears of gratitude
  • 忝くもかたじけなくも graciously

Characters sharing the phonetic 天

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “첨”

Other hanja with radical 心

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