坍

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坍 U+574D, 坍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-574D
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Translingual

Han character

坍 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土月卜 (GBY), four-corner 47140, composition ⿰土丹)

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 225, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4927
  • Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 425, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+574D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 坍
alternative forms 㘱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
那 *naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls
挪 *naːl
娜 *naːlʔ
柟 *noːm, *njam, *njamʔ
抩 *noːm
聃 *n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm
舑 *n̥ʰaːm, *njam
坍 *n̥ʰaːm
髯 *njam, *njams
蚺 *njam
呥 *njam
冉 *njam, *njamʔ
袡 *njam
苒 *njamʔ
姌 *njamʔ, *neːmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *n̥ʰaːm) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 丹 (OC *taːn).

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 坍
Reading # 1/1
No. 10776
Phonetic
component 		冉
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		舑
Old
Chinese 		/*n̥ʰaːm/
Notes 㘱今字

Definitions

坍

  1. to collapse; to topple
    房子坍了。  ―  Fángzi tān le.  ―  The house collapsed.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

坍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): たん (tan)、とん (ton)

Korean

Hanja

坍 (eum 담 (dam))

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Vietnamese

Han character

坍: Nôm readings: đàn, than

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