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憚

憚

See also: 惮

Translingual

Han character

憚 (radical 61 心+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 心口口十 (PRRJ), four-corner 96056, composition ⿰忄單)

  1. dread, shrink from, shirk, fear

References

  • KangXi: page 403, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11222
  • Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2354, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+619A

Chinese

trad. 憚
simp. 惮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 憚
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嚲 *taːlʔ
癉 *taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
奲 *taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
驒 *daːl, *daːn, *teːn
鼉 *daːl
磾 *teːl
鷤 *deːl, *deːls, *daːn
觶 *tjal, *tjals
單 *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
鄲 *taːn
殫 *taːn
簞 *taːn
匰 *taːn
襌 *taːn
啴 *tʰaːn
彈 *daːn, *daːns
貚 *daːn, *deːn
撣 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
潬 *daːnʔ
僤 *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
憚 *daːns
樿 *tjanʔ
燀 *tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
戰 *tjans
闡 *tʰjanʔ
繟 *tʰjanʔ
幝 *tʰjanʔ
嘽 *tʰjanʔ
灛 *tʰjanʔ
蟬 *djan
禪 *djan, *djans
嬋 *djan
墠 *djanʔ
鱓 *djanʔ
蕇 *teːnʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 憚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒案切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /danH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 憚
Reading # 1/1
No. 2012
Phonetic
component		 單
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 憚
Old
Chinese		 /*daːns/

Definitions

憚

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Compounds

  • 不憚／不惮
  • 不憚其煩／不惮其烦
  • 不憚強禦／不惮强御
  • 不憚煩／不惮烦
  • 全無忌憚／全无忌惮
  • 動憚／动惮
  • 忌憚／忌惮 (jìdàn)
  • 憚勞／惮劳
  • 憚服／惮服
  • 憚煩／惮烦
  • 憚赫／惮赫
  • 毫無忌憚／毫无忌惮
  • 無所忌憚／无所忌惮
  • 無所顧憚／无所顾惮
  • 益無忌憚／益无忌惮
  • 肆無忌憚／肆无忌惮 (sìwújìdàn)
  • 過勿憚改／过勿惮改

Japanese

Kanji

憚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

憚 • ‎(tan) (hangeul 탄, revised tan, McCune-Reischauer t'an, Yale than)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憚 (dạn, đạn, đặn)

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