漸

漸 (radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水十十中 (EJJL), four-corner 3212₁, composition ⿰氵斬)

• KangXi: page 647, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18179
• Dae Jaweon: page 1057, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1717, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6F38

Compare Khmer ជាំ (cŏəm, “wet; soaked; steeped”) (Schuessler, 2007).

漸

1. ^† Qiantang River
2. ^† to advance gradually

   • 善漸於惡，惡化於善，成為性行 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     善渐于恶，恶化于善，成为性行 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Wang Chong, Lun Heng (Discussive Weighing), 80 CE

     shàn jiàn yú è, è huà yú shàn, chéngwéi xìngxíng [Pinyin]

     It is by the transition of virtue into wickedness and of wickedness into virtue that the characters are formed.

3. ^† gradual process
4. ^† (of an illness) to aggravate; to worsen
5. ^† to dredge; to open a path
6. ^† omen
7. ^† condition; prerequisite
8. ^† sequence; order
9. gradually

   • 滿而後漸者，其水乎？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     满而后渐者，其水乎？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Yang Xiong, Fa Yan (Exemplary Sayings), 9 CE

     Mǎn ér hòu jiàn zhě, qí shuǐ hū? [Pinyin]

     That which fills up and then flows out gradually, is it not water?

10. ^† just when
11. ^† immediately; soon after
12. ^† when; until
13. 53rd hexagram of the I Ching
14. A surname​.

漸

1. ^† to flow into
2. ^† to bedew
3. ^† to soak
4. ^† to moisten
5. ^† to influence
6. ^† to cheat

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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• Go-on: せん (sen); ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kan’yō-on: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• On: ざん (zan)
• Kun: すすむ (susumu, 漸む); ようやく (yōyaku, 漸く)

漸 • (jeom, cham) (hangeul 점, 참, revised jeom, cham, McCune–Reischauer chŏm, ch'am, Yale cem, cham)

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漸 (tiệm, tràn, tiêm, tiềm)

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