亶

亶 U+4EB6, 亶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EB6 ← 亵 [U+4EB5] CJK Unified Ideographs 亷 → [U+4EB7]

Translingual

Han character

亶 (Kangxi radical 8, 亠+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜田口一 (YWRM), four-corner 0010₆, composition ⿱㐭旦)

Derived characters

• 顫/颤, 擅, 壇, 膻, 檀, 嬗, 氊, 氈, 儃, 饘/𫗴, 鸇/鹯, 𧾍, 䁴, 驙/𫘰, 澶, 鱣/鳣, 蟺, 𨭖/𫔑, 繵/𬙉, 㣶, 䄠, 䆄, 䁴, 䃪, 譠, 旜, 勯, 皽, 㔊

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 89, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 328
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 291, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4EB6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		亶

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亶
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s03858 Transcribed ancient scripts L34704 L34705 L15988 L15989 L15990
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 (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu 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 / 形声, OC *taːnʔ): semantic 㐭 + phonetic 旦 (OC *taːns), originally a ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 㐭 (“granary”) + 虫 (“insect”) (Li Xueqin, 2012).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎn, dàn (dan³, dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˇ, ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan² / daan⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tan³
    • Yale: dǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daan
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: taan² / daan⁶
    • Yale: táan / daahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan² / daan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tan² / dan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːn³⁵/, /taːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cvy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sĩ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sĩ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tanX

Rime
Character	亶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	多旱切
Baxter	tanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tɑnX/
Pan Wuyun	/tɑnX/
Shao Rongfen	/tɑnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tanX/
Li Rong	/tɑnX/
Wang Li	/tɑnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tɑnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤanʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*taːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	亶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ tanX ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁanʔ/
English	sincere, truly
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	亶
Reading #	1/1
No.	2047
Phonetic component	旦
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	亶
Old Chinese	/*taːnʔ/

Definitions

亶

1. (literary) sincere, truthful
2. (literary) alternative form of 但 (dàn, “just; but”)
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of grains) plenty
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) thick; thicken; alternative form of 單 / 单
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) big
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 𤺺 (“to fall ill”)
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 袒 (“bare”)
8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 殫 / 殚 (dān, “to exhaust”)
9. a surname

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhān (zhan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹
    • Yale: jān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
    • Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sin⁴
    • Yale: sìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²¹/

Definitions

亶

1. alternative form of 邅 (zhān)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chán (chan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻan²
    • Yale: chán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charn
    • Palladius: чань (čanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sin⁶
    • Yale: sihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/

Definitions

亶

1. alternative form of 𦒜 (xiān, “to fly”)

References

• “亶”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)
• 諸橋轍次 (Morohashi Tetsuji), chief ed. 大漢和辞典 (Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, “Comprehensive Chinese–Japanese Dictionary”). 13 vols. 1955–1960. Revised and enlarged ed. 1984–1986. Tokyo: Taishukan.

Japanese

Kanji

亶

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: たん (tan)、ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)、せん (sen)
• Kun: あつい (atsui)、まこと (makoto)

Korean

Hanja

亶 • (dan, seon) (hangeul 단, 선, revised dan, seon, McCune–Reischauer tan, sŏn, Yale tan, sen)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
亶

Han character

亶: Hán Nôm readings: đàn

References

• Nom Foundation