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坦

坦

Translingual

Han character

坦 (radical 32 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土日一 (GAM), four-corner 46110, composition ⿰土旦)

  1. flat, smooth
  2. self-possessed
  3. honest, frank

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 坦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皽 *tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担 *taːnʔ
胆 *daːn, *daːn
疸 *taːnʔ, *taːns
觛 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶 *taːnʔ
嬗 *taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦 *taːns
鴠 *taːns
譠 *tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦 *tʰaːnʔ
但 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀 *daːn
壇 *daːn
儃 *daːn, *djan
驙 *daːn, *tan
袒 *daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢 *daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵 *daːnʔ
膻 *daːnʔ
澶 *daːns, *djan
邅 *tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣 *tan
饘 *tjan, *tjanʔ
旜 *tjan
氈 *tjan
鸇 *tjan
顫 *tjans
蟺 *djanʔ
擅 *djans
羶 *hljan
呾 *taːd, *ʔraːd
怛 *taːd
妲 *taːd
靼 *taːd, *tjad
炟 *taːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 坦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他旦切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰanX/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑnX/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 坦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thanX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tʰ]ˤa[n]ʔ/
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. *[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 坦
Reading # 1/1
No. 2059
Phonetic
component		 旦
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 坦
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰaːnʔ/

Definitions

坦

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Compounds

  • 不舒坦
  • 令坦
  • 伊斯坦堡
  • 伯恩斯坦
  • 佩斯坦
  • 反坦克炮
  • 坦克 (tǎnkè)
  • 坦克兵
  • 坦克車／坦克车 (tǎnkèchē)
  • 坦坦
  • 坦坦蕩蕩／坦坦荡荡
  • 坦塗／坦涂
  • 坦夷
  • 坦尚尼亞／坦尚尼亚 (Tǎnshàngníyà)
  • 坦平
  • 坦懷／坦怀
  • 坦承 (tǎnchéng)
  • 坦易
  • 坦然 (tǎnrán)
  • 坦率 (tǎnshuài)
  • 坦白 (tǎnbái)
  • 坦直
  • 坦緩／坦缓
  • 坦腹
  • 坦腹東床／坦腹东床
  • 坦蕩／坦荡 (tǎndàng)
  • 坦蕩蕩／坦荡荡
  • 坦言
  • 坦誠／坦诚 (tǎnchéng)
  • 坦迤
  • 坦途
  • 坦露
  • 巴力斯坦
  • 巴勒斯坦 (Bālèsītǎn)
  • 巴基斯坦 (Bājīsītǎn)
  • 平坦 (píngtǎn)
  • 平坦大路
  • 平坦寬闊／平坦宽阔
  • 愛因斯坦／爱因斯坦
  • 斯坦因
  • 斯坦貝克／斯坦贝克
  • 曼哈坦島／曼哈坦岛
  • 東坦蕭然／东坦萧然
  • 東床坦腹／东床坦腹
  • 波茨坦
  • 泰坦族
  • 興都斯坦／兴都斯坦
  • 舒坦 (shūtǎn)
  • 襟懷坦白／襟怀坦白

Japanese

Kanji

坦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • 𡐙

Han character

坦 (thản, đất, đắt, đứt, đật, ngẩn, thưỡn)

  1. earth; soil; dirt

Compounds

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese equivalent is đất.

References

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