唵 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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ǎn

used in Buddhist texts to transliterate non-Chinese sounds

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 奄 represents the sound.

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu

mouth

奄 Sound component

yǎn, yān

ere long

Definitions

唵

ǎn

used in Buddhist texts to transliterate non-Chinese sounds; to eat with the hand; (interjection) oh!; (dialect) to stuff sth in one's mouth; (used in buddhist transliterations) om

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes	11
Unicode	U+5535

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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