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U+4EB6, 亶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EB6

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 8, +11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜田口一 (YWRM), four-corner 00106, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 89, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 328
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 291, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+4EB6

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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


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).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *taːnʔ) : semantic + phonetic (OC *taːns), originally a ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (granary) + (insect) (Li Xueqin, 2012).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tanX/
Li
Rong
/tɑnX/
Wang
Li
/tɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
daan2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tanX ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁanʔ/
English sincere, truly

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2047
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*taːnʔ/

Definitions

  1. (literary) sincere, truthful
  2. (literary) Alternative form of (dàn, just; but)
  3. (of grains) plenty
  4. thick; thicken; alternative form of
  5. big
  6. Alternative form of 𤺺 (to fall ill)
  7. Alternative form of (bare)
  8. Alternative form of (dān, to exhaust)
  9. a surname

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (zhān)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of 𦒜 (xiān, to fly)

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: たん (tan)ぜん (zen)
  • Kan-on: たん (tan)せん (sen)
  • Kun: あつい (atsui)まこと (makoto)

Korean

Hanja

(dan, seon) (hangeul , , revised dan, seon, McCune–Reischauer tan, sŏn, Yale tan, sen)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: đàn

References