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嘆

嘆

嘆 U+5606, 嘆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5606
← 嘅
[U+5605] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嘇 →
[U+5607]
See also: 叹 and 歎

Translingual

Han character

嘆 (radical 30 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口廿中人 (RTLO), four-corner 64034, composition ⿰口𦰩)

  1. sigh, admire
  2. chant

References

  • KangXi: page 205, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4138
  • Dae Jaweon: page 427, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 673, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5606

Chinese

trad. 嘆/歎
simp. 叹

Glyph origin

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 嘆 嘆
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 寒 (61) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 他干切 他旦切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑn/ /tʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑn/ /tʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑn/ /tʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰan/ /tʰanH/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑn/ /tʰɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑn/ /tʰɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑn/ /tʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tān tàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嘆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*n̥ˤar-s/
English sigh

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 嘆 嘆
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4890 4895
Phonetic
component		 暵 暵
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 灘 炭
Old
Chinese		 /*n̥ʰaːn/ /*n̥ʰaːns/

Definitions

嘆

  1. to sigh
  2. (grammar) Short for 嘆詞／叹词 (tàncí, “interjection”).

Japanese

Kanji

嘆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sigh
  2. lament
  3. moan
  4. grieve

Readings

Noun

嘆 ‎(hiragana たん, romaji tan)

  1. sigh

Korean

Hanja

嘆 • ‎(tan) (hangeul 탄, revised tan, McCune-Reischauer t'an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘆 (thán, han, thăn, than, hen, thơn)

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