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Translingual
Han character
憚 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 心口口十 (PRRJ), four-corner 96056, composition ⿰忄單)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11222
- Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2354, character 8
- Unihan data for U+619A
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 嚲
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*taːlʔ
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| 癉
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*taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
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| 奲
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*taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
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| 驒
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*daːl, *daːn, *teːn
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| 鼉
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*daːl
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| 磾
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*teːl
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| 鷤
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*deːl, *deːls, *daːn
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| 觶
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*tjal, *tjals
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| 單
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*taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
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| 鄲
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*taːn
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| 殫
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*taːn
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| 簞
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*taːn
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| 匰
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*taːn
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| 襌
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*taːn
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| 彈
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*daːn, *daːns
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| 貚
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*daːn, *deːn
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| 撣
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*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
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| 潬
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*daːnʔ
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| 僤
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*daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
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| 憚
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*daːns
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| 樿
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*tjanʔ
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| 燀
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*tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
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| 戰
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*tjans
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| 闡
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*tʰjanʔ
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| 繟
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*tʰjanʔ
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| 幝
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*tʰjanʔ
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| 嘽
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*tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ
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| 灛
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*tʰjanʔ
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| 蟬
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*djan
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| 禪
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*djan, *djans
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| 嬋
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*djan
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| 墠
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*djanʔ
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| 鱓
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*djanʔ
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| 蕇
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*teːnʔ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːns) : semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r (“to shiver, to tremble”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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憚
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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2012
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Phonetic
component
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單
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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憚
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Old
Chinese
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/*daːns/
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Definitions
憚
- (literary) to fear
我心憚暑、憂心如熏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
我心惮暑、忧心如熏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Wǒxīn dàn shǔ, yōuxīn rú xūn.
- My heart is terrified with the heat; - my sorrowing heart is as if on fire.
我向來是不憚以最壞的惡意，來推測中國人的。 [MSC, trad.]
我向来是不惮以最坏的恶意，来推测中国人的。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 1926, Lu Xun, “In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen”
- Wǒ xiànglái shì bù dàn yǐ zuì huài de èyì, lái tuīcè zhōngguórén de.
- All along, I do not fear to think the worst of Chinese people.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
憚
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 惮)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
憚 • (tan) (hangeul 탄)
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Vietnamese
Han character
憚: Hán Nôm readings: dạn, đạn, đặn
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