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但

但

但 U+4F46, 但
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F46
← 佅
[U+4F45] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 佇 →
[U+4F47]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

但 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人日一 (OAM), four-corner 26210, composition ⿰亻旦)

References

  • KangXi: page 97, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 495
  • Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 132, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+4F46

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 但

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 但
Large seal script

L34714

L16006

L16007
Small seal script

s05883
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone 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 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 旦 ‎(OC *taːns).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 但 但 但
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 寒 (61) 寒 (61) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I
Fanqie 徒干切 徒旱切 徒案切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑn/ /dɑnX/ /dɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑn/ /dɑnX/ /dɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑn/ /dɑnX/ /dɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dan/ /danX/ /danH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑn/ /dɑnX/ /dɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑn/ /dɑnX/ /dɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑn/ /dʱɑnX/ /dʱɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán dàn dàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 但
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ danX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˤa[n]ʔ/
English only

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 但 但 但
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 2060 2067 2072
Phonetic
component		 旦 旦 旦
Rime
group		 元 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 壇 但 憚
Old
Chinese		 /*daːn/ /*daːnʔ/ /*daːns/
Notes 通作袒

Definitions

但

  1. only
  2. but; however; yet; still
    但是  ―  dànshì  ―  but

Compounds

  • 但有 (dànyǒu)
  • 但歌
  • 但民
  • 但求塞責／但求塞责
  • 但求如願／但求如愿
  • 但澤／但泽
  • 但聞／但闻 (dànwén)
  • 但須／但须

Japanese

Kanji

但

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Noun

但 ‎(hiragana ただ, romaji tada)

  1. Alternative form of 只

Korean

Hanja

但 • ‎(dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

但 (đởn, đản, giản)

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