đám

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬 dæːmˀ.

Noun

 * 1) cluster, heap
 * 2) crowd, throng, gathering
 * 1) crowd, throng, gathering

Graphical notes

 * The Nôm character was originally used as a phonogram meant to be read as . Because áng and đám are/were semantically similar (both are still the modern classifiers for ),  became a semantogram used to write đám. For example, the place name "Xuân Đám" in  was spelled as  on 春盎社亭碑 (Xuân Đám xã đình bi, 1720).