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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木卜田一 (DYWM), four-corner 40916, composition)

  1. sandalwood, hardwood
  2. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 555, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15632
  • Dae Jaweon: page 945, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1305, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6A80

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script 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 *daːn) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2062
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*daːn/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 伐檀
  • 印度黃檀印度黄檀
  • 旃檀
  • 栴檀 (zhāntán)
  • 檀信 (tánxìn)
  • 檀口
  • 檀弓
  • 檀施
  • 檀暈妝檀晕妆
  • 檀木靴
  • 檀板 (tánbǎn)
  • 檀林
  • 檀槽
  • 檀欒檀栾
  • 檀粉
  • 檀越
  • 檀車檀车
  • 檀那 (tánnà)
  • 檀郎
  • 檀郎謝女檀郎谢女
  • 檀香 (tánxiāng)
  • 檀香山
  • 檀香扇
  • 毚檀
  • 白檀 (báitán)
  • 紫檀 (zǐtán)
  • 邏逤檀逻逤檀
  • 阿檀
  • 馬躍檀溪马跃檀溪
  • 黑檀木

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
まゆみ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana まゆみ, katakana マユミ, romaji mayumi)

  1. Euonymus hamiltonianus
  2. a bow made from the wood of Euonymus hamiltonianus

Proper noun

(hiragana だん, romaji Dan)

  1. A surname.

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(dan) (hangeul , revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

  1. (박달나무): birch
  2. (단향목): sandalwood

Synonyms

  1. (birch): ,
  2. (sandalwood): , , ,

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(đàn, trầm)

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