儋

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儋 U+510B, 儋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-510B
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Translingual

Han character

儋 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人弓金口 (ONCR), four-corner 27261, composition ⿰亻詹)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 119, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1195
  • Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 227, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+510B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儋
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
s05737
Transcribed ancient scripts
L33871
L33872
L33873
L33874
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (詹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
甔 *toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔 *taːm, *taːms
儋 *ʔl'aːm
聸 *taːm
膽 *taːmʔ
黵 *taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹 *daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺 *daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻 *tjam
詹 *tjam
蟾 *tjam, *djam
噡 *tjam
譫 *tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂 *tʰjams
贍 *djams
檐 *lam
簷 *lam
舚 *tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Etymology 1

trad. 儋
simp. # 儋

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 儋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都甘切
Baxter tam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tɑm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tɑm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tam/
Li
Rong 		/tɑm/
Wang
Li 		/tɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		daam1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 儋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tam ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁam/
English carry on the shoulder

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 儋
Reading # 1/1
No. 16748
Phonetic
component 		詹
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		擔
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔl'aːm/
Notes 後作擔

Definitions

儋

  1. Only used in 儋縣／儋县 (Dānxiàn) and 儋州 (Dānzhōu).
  2. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 儋 – see 擔 (“to carry on a shoulder pole; to bear; to shoulder; to undertake; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 擔).

References

Japanese

Kanji

儋

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. small jar
  2. to bear a burden
  3. load of two

Readings

  • On (unclassified): たん (tan)、せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: になう (ninau)、にたい (nitai)、こがめ (kogame)

Korean

Hanja

儋 (eum 담 (dam))

  1. small jar

Vietnamese

Han character

儋: Hán Nôm readings: đam

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