譚

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See also: 谭
譚 U+8B5A, 譚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B5A
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 譛 →

Translingual

Han character

譚 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一田十 (YRMWJ), four-corner 01646, composition ⿰訁覃)

Related characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1182, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35978
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1645, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4017, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8B5A

Chinese

trad. 譚
simp. 谭
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 譚
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (覃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鷣 *luː, *lɯm
撢 *l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛 *l̥ʰɯːms
潭 *l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃 *l'ɯːm
鐔 *l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫 *l'ɯːm
橝 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫 *l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂 *l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰 *l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫 *l'ɯːmʔ
嘾 *l'ɯːmʔ
贉 *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫 *l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈 *zlɯmʔ
鱏 *ljɯm, *lɯm
簟 *l'ɯːmʔ
驔 *l'ɯːmʔ
磹 *l'ɯːms

Pronunciation

Note: ham4 - surname.
Note:
  • Taiwan:
    • thâm - surname.
Rime
Character 譚 譚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 覃 (159) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒含切 徒感切
Baxter dom domX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dʌm/ /dʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dəm/ /dəmX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɒm/ /dɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dəm/ /dəmX/
Li
Rong 		/dᴀm/ /dᴀmX/
Wang
Li 		/dɒm/ /dɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱăm/ /dʱămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tán dàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		taam4 daam6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 譚 譚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12319 12331
Phonetic
component 		覃 覃
Rime
group 		侵 侵
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		覃 禫
Old
Chinese 		/*l'ɯːm/ /*l'ɯːmʔ/

Definitions

譚

  1. Alternative form of 談／谈 (tán, “to discuss”)
  2. a surname
    譚詠麟／谭咏麟 [Cantonese]  ―  taam4 wing6 leon4   ―  Alan Tam

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

譚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. story

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
譚
たん
Hyōgaiji
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 譚 (MC dom|domX).

Pronunciation

Suffix

譚(たん) • (-tan) 

  1. story; tale
    変身(へんしん)譚(たん) ― henshin-tan ― story that features a metamorphosis
    復讐(ふくしゅう)譚(たん) ― fukushū-tan ― tale of revenge
    継子(ままこ)いじめ譚(たん) ― mamako-ijime-tan ― story of stepchild abuse
    『ディオニュソス譚(たん)』 ― “Dionyusosu-tan” ― Dionysiaca

See also

Korean

Hanja

譚 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

譚: Hán Nôm readings: đàm

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