單

單 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口口田十 (RRWJ), four-corner 6650₆, composition ⿱吅⿻日十 or ⿱吅⿻甲一)

• 僤, 嘽, 墠, 嬋, 㠆, 幝, 彈, 憚, 撣, 暺, 樿, 殫, 潬, 燀, 㺗, 磾, 禪, 繟, 䐷, 蟬, 襌, 觶, 貚, 䠤, 軃, 䡲, 驒, 鱓, 䵐, 嚲, 䯬, 奲, 戰, 鄲, 鷤, 囅, 匰, 癉, 㲷, 闡, 簞, 蕇, 鼉

• 单, 単

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 200, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3993
• Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 654, character 6
• Unihan data for U+55AE

Historical forms of the character 單
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) of a war or hunting weapon, a, Y-shaped wooden stick with two stones attached on top. The component in the middle in some oracle bones was a huge point wich represented a rope around the stick; perhaps, this weapon was used as a spear and then retrieved through this rope. Otherwise, the huge point in the middle was another stone attached to the stick. The huge point was then stylized as an horizontal trait, as 口 (the stick resembled 中) and eventually as 田. The horizontal stroke at the bottom of the character was added later.

An alternative theory suggests that it represents a net to catch animals with two weights on top, but the huge point in the middle of the character in some oracle bones may not be a web or net.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/t)a(n/j) (“single; one; whole; only”). Cognate with 但 (OC *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, “only; but”).

單

1. single; individual; solitary
2. thin; narrow; faint
3. simple; uncomplicated
4. (of clothes) unlined
5. (mathematics) Short for 單數／单数 (dānshù, “odd”).
6. (linguistics) Short for 單數／单数 (dānshù, “singular”).
7. cover; bed sheet
8. list; register; catalogue
9. only; merely; simply

   • 別的國度裏怎樣，我不知道。單知道諾威人Hamsun有一本小說叫《飢餓》，粗野的口吻是很多的，但我並不見這一類話。 [MSC, trad.]
     别的国度里怎样，我不知道。单知道诺威人Hamsun有一本小说叫《饥饿》，粗野的口吻是很多的，但我并不见这一类话。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1925, 魯迅, 論「他媽的！」

     Bié de guódù lǐ zěnyàng, wǒ bù zhīdào. Dān zhīdào Nuòwēirén Hamsun yǒu yī běn xiǎoshuō jiào “Jī'è”, cūyě de kǒuwěn shì hěnduō de, dàn wǒ bìngbù jiàn zhè yī lèi huà.

     I don't know what it's like in other countries. I only know that a Norwegian Hamsun has a novel called Hunger vulgar speech is plenty, but I have by no means seen this kind of thing .

10. and; plus
11. bill (Classifier: 張／张 c)

    埋單／埋单 [Cantonese]  ―  maai⁴ daan¹   ―  to pay a bill

12. (Cantonese) receipt (Classifier: 張／张 c)
13. (Cantonese) transaction; order (Classifier: 張／张 c)
14. Classifier for cases, deals and businesses.
15. (Cantonese, derogatory) Classifier for people.
    • 1952, 梁琛, directed by 梁琛, 十月芥菜 [A Ready Lover]‎, spoken by 張永超 (鄺山笑):

      哦，嗰單西裝友呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]
      哦，嗰单西装友呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]

      o⁶, go² daan¹ sai¹ zong¹ jau^5-2 aa⁴?

      Oh, that bloke in a suit?

16. a surname

• (ticket): 票 (piào), 券 (quàn); (Cantonese) 飛／飞 (fēi)
• (receipt):

• (only): 隻／只 (zhī)

單

1. ^† to surround
2. Used in 單于 (chányú).
3. Used in 單閼／单阏.

單

1. (～縣) Shan County (a county of Shandong)
2. a surname: Shan, Sin, Sinn

   單立文／单立文 [Cantonese]  ―  sin⁶ laap⁶ man⁴   ―  Pal Sinn

單

1. Alternative form of 嘽／啴
2. Alternative form of 繟／𦈎

單

1. Alternative form of 戰／战 (zhàn)
2. Used in 單至／单至.

單

1. (rare) a surname

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “单”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 168.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “单”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 25.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “单”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 205.

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 単)

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• Go-on: たん (tan)、ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)、せん (sen)
• Kun: ひとえ (hitoe, 單)^{←ひとへ (fitofe, 單, historical)}

單 (eumhun 홀 단 (hol dan))

1. hanja form^? of 단 (“single; individual; solitary”)

• 단어 (單語, daneo, “word”)
• 단순 (單純, dansun, “simple”)

單 (eumhun 오랑캐 이름 선 (orangkae ireum seon))

1. hanja form^? of 선 (“a barbarian”)

• 선우 (單于, seonu, “Chanyu”)

單: Hán Nôm readings: đơn, đan, thiền, truyên

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