冚

冚 (Kangxi 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 (first edition): 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

   冚埋本書／冚埋本书 [Cantonese]  ―  kam² maai⁴ bun² syu¹ [Jyutping]  ―  close the book

   我琴晚瞓覺冚咗兩張被。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我琴晚𰥛觉冚咗两张被。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ kam⁴ maan⁵ fan³ gaau³ kam² zo² loeng⁵ zoeng¹ pei⁵. [Jyutping]

   Last night, while sleeping, I put on two blankets.

   攞完唔該冚返個蓋 [Cantonese, trad.]
   𫽋完唔该冚返个盖 [Cantonese, simp.]

   lo² jyun⁴ m⁴ goi¹ kam² faan¹ go³ goi³ [Jyutping]

   Please put the lid back on after taking it.

2. (Cantonese) to cover up; to conceal; to prevent something from being discovered
3. (Cantonese, Teochew) cover; lid
4. (Cantonese) to raid (an illegal den)
5. (Cantonese) to slap (someone) in the face

   佢畀佢女朋友冚咗一巴。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   keoi⁵ bei² keoi⁵ neoi⁵ pang⁴ jau⁵ kam² zo² jat¹ baa¹. [Jyutping]

   He got a slap in the face from his girlfriend.

6. (Cantonese) to cover (to be enough money for)

冚 (Cantonese)

1. all; entire

冚 (Cantonese)

1. (of openings) tight; firm

   隻窗閂唔冚就好易畀風吹返開。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   只窗闩唔冚就好易畀风吹返开。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   zek³ coeng¹ saan¹ m⁴ ham⁶ zau⁶ hou² ji⁶ bei² fung¹ ceoi¹ faan¹ hoi¹. [Jyutping]

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