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旦
旦
See also: 且
Translingual
Also simplification of 詹, as in 担.
Han character
旦 (radical 72 日+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 日一 (AM), four-corner 60100, composition ⿱日一)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 489, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13734
- Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1483, character 1
- Unihan data for U+65E6
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
旦 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: tan4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
- IPA (key): /ta̠n⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: daan2, daan3
- Yale: dáan, daan
- Cantonese Pinyin: daan2, daan3
- IPA (key): /tɑːn³⁵/, /tɑːn³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tòaⁿ / tàn
- Tâi-lô: tuànn / tàn
- Phofsit Daibuun: dvoax, daxn
- IPA (Xiamen): /tuã²¹/, /tan²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tuã⁴¹/, /tan⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tuã²¹/, /tan²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /tuã¹¹/, /tan¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tuã²¹/, /tan²¹/
- Note: tòaⁿ - vernacular, tàn - literary.
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 旦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 得按切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/tɑnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/tɑnH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/tɑnH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/tanH/ |
| Li Rong |
/tɑnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/tɑnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/tɑnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
dàn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 旦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
dàn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tanH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*tˤan-s/ |
| English | dawn |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 旦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2051 |
| Phonetic component |
旦 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
旦 |
| Old Chinese |
/*taːns/ |
Definitions
旦
- early morning; dawn
- a female character, particularly a lead role, in a traditional Chinese opera
- an actor or actress known for playing such characters
Japanese
Kanji
旦
Readings
- Goon: たん (tan), だん (dan)
- Kan’on: たん (tan)
- Kun: あした (ashita)
- Nanori: あき (aki), あきら (akira), あけ (ake), あさ (asa), ただし (tadashi)
Compounds
Compounds
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Korean
Hanja
旦 • (dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 旦
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (旦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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 |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 日 + 一 – the sun (日) appearing over the horizon (一).