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U+5766, 坦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5766

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 32, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土日一 (GAM), four-corner 46110, composition )

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 226, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4971
  • Dae Jaweon: page 461, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 431, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5766

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰaːnʔ): semantic (earth) + phonetic (OC *taːns)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • thán - literary;
  • tháⁿ - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter thanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰanX/
Li
Rong
/tʰɑnX/
Wang
Li
/tʰɑnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/tʰɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
taan2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ thanX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁaʔ/
English level, at ease

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. 2059
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰaːnʔ/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) flat; level; wide
      ―  píngtǎn  ―  level
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) calm; open-hearted; at ease
      ―  tǎnrán  ―  calm
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) honest; frank
      ―  tǎnbái  ―  honest; candid
    Synonym: 直率 (zhíshuài)
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to reveal; to expose
  5. a surname
  6. Used in transcription.
    桑尼亞桑尼亚  ―  Tǎnsāngníyà  ―  Tanzania
    巴基斯  ―  Bājīsītǎn  ―  Pakistan
    愛因斯爱因斯  ―  Àiyīnsītǎn  ―  Einstein

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. flat; level; even

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC thanX).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 평평할 (pyeongpyeonghal tan))

  1. hanja form? of (flat; level; even)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: thản ((thảng)(hạn)(thiết)), thán
: Nôm readings: đứt, đất, đắt, thản, đác, đởn, thán, đắn, đật, ngẩn, thưỡn

Etymology 1

Affix

 (thản)

  1. chữ Hán form of thản (flat; level; wide)
  2. chữ Hán form of thản (calm; pleasant)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, đất): semantic (earth) + abbreviated phonetic (đát). The element is a simplified form of .

Noun

(đất)

  1. chữ Nôm form of đất (earth; soil; dirt)
  2. chữ Nôm form of đất (land)
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

(đứt)

  1. chữ Nôm form of đứt (to break off; to be cut off)

References