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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月卜田一 (BYWM), four-corner 70216, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 995, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29929
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1446, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2117, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+81BB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
*taːnʔ
*daːn, *daːn
*taːnʔ, *taːns
*taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
*taːnʔ
*taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
*taːns
*taːns
*tʰaːn, *rteːn
*tʰaːnʔ
*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
*daːn
*daːn
*daːn, *djan
*daːn, *tan
*daːnʔ, *rdeːns
*daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
*daːnʔ
*daːnʔ
*daːns, *djan
*tan, *danʔ, *dans
*tan
*tjan, *tjanʔ
*tjan
*tjan
*tjan
*tjans
*djanʔ
*djans
*hljan
*taːd, *ʔraːd
*taːd
*taːd
*taːd, *tjad
*taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daːnʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *taːnʔ)

Pronunciation 1


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (shān, “rank odor; sheepy odor”).

Compounds

  • 附膻逐穢附膻逐秽
  • 附膻逐臭

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/danX/
Li
Rong
/dɑnX/
Wang
Li
/dɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shān
Middle
Chinese
‹ syen ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.tan/
English smell of sheep

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2071
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*daːnʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. Only used in 膻中 (“centre of chest”).

Compounds

  • 膻中

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. liver

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(dan, jeon) (hangeul , , revised dan, jeon, McCune-Reischauer tan, chŏn)

  1. strip
  2. rank odor (of sheep or goats)