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壇

壇

See also: 坛

Translingual

Han character

壇 (radical 32 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土卜田一 (GYWM), four-corner 40116, composition ⿰土亶)

  1. altar
  2. arena, examination hall

References

  • KangXi: page 240, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5528
  • Dae Jaweon: page 480, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 492, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+58C7

Chinese

trad. 壇
simp. 坛

Glyph origin

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) : semantic 土 + phonetic 亶 ‎(OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 壇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒干切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dan/
Li
Rong		 /dɑn/
Wang
Li		 /dɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 壇 壇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shàn tán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyenX › ‹ dan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]anʔ/ /*[d]ˤan/
English leveled area altar

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 壇
Reading # 1/1
No. 2063
Phonetic
component		 旦
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 壇
Old
Chinese		 /*daːn/

Definitions

壇

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Japanese

Kanji

壇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. podium, stage, rostrum, terrace

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

壇 (đàn, đường)

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