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膻

膻

See also: 羶

Translingual

Han character

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

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.
 膻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 膻
Small seal script
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

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

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

膻

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

Compounds

  • 附膻逐穢／附膻逐秽
  • 附膻逐臭

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 膻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒旱切
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 膻
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 膻
Reading # 1/1
No. 2071
Phonetic
component		 旦
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 但
Old
Chinese		 /*daːnʔ/
Notes 通作袒

Definitions

膻

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

Compounds

  • 膻中

References

Japanese

Kanji

膻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. liver

Readings

Korean

Hanja

膻 • ‎(dan, jeon) (hangeul 단, 전, revised dan, jeon, McCune-Reischauer tan, chŏn)

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

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