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Translingual

Han character

(radical 187 +12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸火口口十 (SFRRJ), four-corner 76356)

  1. dappled

References

  • KangXi: page 1445, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45002
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1969, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4577, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9A52

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*taːlʔ
*taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
*taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
*daːl, *daːn, *teːn
*daːl
*teːl
*deːl, *deːls, *daːn
*tjal, *tjals
*taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*tʰaːn
*daːn, *daːns
*daːn, *deːn
*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
*daːnʔ
*daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
*daːns
樿 *tjanʔ
*tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
*tjans
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*djan
*djan, *djans
*djan
*djanʔ
*djanʔ
*teːnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (7) (5) (7)
Final () (61) (85) (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I IV I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑn/ /ten/ /dɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑn/ /ten/ /dɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑn/ /tɛn/ /dɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dan/ /tɛn/ /da/
Li
Rong
/dɑn/ /ten/ /dɑ/
Wang
Li
/dɑn/ /tien/ /dɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑn/ /tien/ /dʱɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tán diān tuó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tuó tuó
Middle
Chinese
‹ da › ‹ ten ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ˤar/ /*tˤer/
English bluish-black horse with white spots 驒騱 a kind of wild horse

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 1987 2008 2038
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*daːl/ /*daːn/ /*teːn/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

(tan) (hangeul , revised tan, McCune-Reischauer t'an, Yale than)

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