歎

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See also: 叹 and 嘆
歎 U+6B4E, 歎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B4E
← 歍
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 歏 →

Translingual

Han character

歎 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿人弓人 (TONO), four-corner 47582, composition ⿰𦰩欠)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 571, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16182
  • Dae Jaweon: page 959, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2149, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6B4E

Chinese

trad. 歎/嘆
simp. 叹*
alternative forms 歏
𪇽
𣥁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (暵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
儺 *naːl
臡 *naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆 *n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹 *n̥ʰaːn
攤 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱 *n̥ʰaːn
歎 *n̥ʰaːns
難 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢 *hnaːns
戁 *rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 歎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他旦切
Baxter thanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰanH/
Li
Rong 		/tʰɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/tʰɑnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		taan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ than ›
Old
Chinese 		/*n̥ˁar/
English to sigh

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 歎
Reading # 1/1
No. 4896
Phonetic
component 		暵
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		炭
Old
Chinese 		/*n̥ʰaːns/

Definitions

歎

  1. Alternative form of 嘆 (tàn, “to sigh; to chant; to praise”)
  2. one of 24 literary genres from the Zhou dynasty
  3. a surname.

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

literary genre

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended) 		Shinjitai
(extended)
歎󠄀
歎+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
歎󠄂
歎+&#xE0102;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai 歎
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Kanji

歎

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: たん (tan)
  • Kan-on: たん (tan)
  • Kun: なげく (nageku, 歎く)

Compounds

Definitions

Kanji in this term
歎
たん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 歎 – see the following entry.
【嘆たん】S
sigh
(This term, 歎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 歎 (MC thanH).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

歎 (eumhun 탄식할 탄 (tansikhal tan))

  1. hanja form? of 탄 (“sigh”)

Compounds

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

歎: Hán Việt readings: thán (他(tha)案(án)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
歎: Nôm readings: than[4][3], thăn[4][3]

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References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
  2. ^ Bonet (1899).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Génibrel (1898).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hồ (1976).
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