冚

冚 (radical 14, 冖+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月山 (BU) or X月山 (XBU), composition ⿱冖山)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 130, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 303, character 2
• Unihan data for U+519A

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 冖 (“cover”) + 山 (“mountain”).

Traditionally related to 𠖫 (gǎn, “to cover”) (Bai, 1980; You, 1992).

Bauer (1996) considers this to be part of an area word family in Southeast Asian languages: *khVm ~ *khVp ~ *kVm ~ *kVp ~ *k(h)l/rm/p. It is probably related to 扱 (kap1, “to cover; to imprint”). Compare Min Nan 崁 (khàm, “to cover”), Burmese ခြုံ (hkrum, “to cover; to wrap”), Proto-Tai *hɤmᴮ (“to cover (with cloth)”) (whence Zhuang hoemq and Thai ห่ม (hòm)). The root is found in many Sinitic dialects including Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Wenzhounese.

冚

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to cover
2. (Cantonese) to cover up; to conceal; to prevent something from being discovered
3. (Cantonese) cover; lid
4. (Cantonese) to slap; to hit with the palm
5. (Cantonese) to raid (an illegal den)

冚

(Cantonese)

1. Alternative form of 咸 (“all; entire”).