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澹

澹

See also: 淡

Translingual

Han character

澹 (radical 85 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水弓金口 (ENCR), four-corner 37161, composition ⿰氵詹)

References

  • KangXi: page 653, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18421
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1064, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1762, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6FB9

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 澹
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (詹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
甔 *toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔 *taːm, *taːms
儋 *ʔl'aːm
聸 *taːm
膽 *taːmʔ
黵 *taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹 *daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺 *daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻 *tjam
詹 *tjam
蟾 *tjam, *djam
噡 *tjam
譫 *tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜 *tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂 *tʰjams
贍 *djams
檐 *lam
簷 *lam
舚 *tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms) : semantic 水 + phonetic 詹 ‎(OC *tjam).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 澹

Related to 淡 (OC *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 澹 澹
Reading # 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒敢切 徒濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /damX/ /damH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑmX/ /dʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dàn dàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 澹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ damX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]ˤamʔ/
English calm

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 澹 澹
Reading # 2/3 3/3
No. 16756 16759
Phonetic
component		 詹 詹
Rime
group		 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 噉 憺
Old
Chinese		 /*daːmʔ/ /*daːms/
Definitions

澹

  1. calm and indifferent to fame and fortune
  2. quiet; tranquil
  3. light (of taste); insipid
  4. (of water) to ripple
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 恬澹
  • 慘澹／惨澹 (cǎndàn)
  • 慘澹經營／惨澹经营
  • 暗澹
  • 清澹
  • 澄澹精致
  • 澹彩
  • 澹泊
  • 澹泊寡欲
  • 澹泊明志
  • 澹淡
  • 澹淡經營／澹淡经营
  • 澹澉
  • 澹澹
  • 澹然
  • 澹蕩／澹荡
  • 澹話／澹话

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 澹
Reading # 1/3
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒甘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dam/
Li
Rong		 /dɑm/
Wang
Li		 /dɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 澹
Reading # 1/3
No. 16755
Phonetic
component		 詹
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 談
Old
Chinese		 /*daːm/
Definitions

澹

  1. Only used in 澹臺／澹台 (“a surname”).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

澹

  1. Only used in 澹林.

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.
 澹
alt. forms 霑
淫

Pronunciation

Definitions

澹

  1. (Min Nan) wet

Compounds

  • 澹耳

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 澹 – see 贍.
(This character, 澹, is a variant form of 贍.)

Japanese

Kanji

澹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

澹 • ‎(dam, seom) (hangeul 담, 섬, revised dam, seom, McCune-Reischauer tam, sŏm, Yale tam, sem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

澹 (đạm)

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