儋

儋 U+510B, 儋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-510B ← 儊 [U+510A] CJK Unified Ideographs 儌 → [U+510C]

Translingual

Han character

儋 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人弓金口 (ONCR), four-corner 2726₁, composition ⿰亻詹)

Derived characters

• 𧀻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 119, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1195
• Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 227, character 1
• Unihan data for U+510B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儋
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05737 Transcribed ancient scripts L33871 L33872 L33873 L33874
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 (詹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
甔	*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔	*taːm, *taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹	*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	*daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	*tjam, *djam
噡	*tjam
譫	*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Etymology 1

trad.		儋
simp. #		儋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dan
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹
    • Yale: dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: daam¹
    • Yale: dāam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tam

Rime
Character	儋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都甘切
Baxter	tam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/tɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/tɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tam/
Li Rong	/tɑm/
Wang Li	/tɑm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[mə-t]ˤam/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'aːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	儋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dān
Middle Chinese	‹ tam ›
Old Chinese	/*[mə-t]ˁam/
English	carry on the shoulder
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	儋
Reading #	1/1
No.	16748
Phonetic component	詹
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	擔
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'aːm/
Notes	後作擔

Definitions

儋

1. only used in 儋縣／儋县 (Dānxiàn) and 儋州 (Dānzhōu)
2. a surname

Compounds

• 儋州 (Dānzhōu)
• 儋州話 / 儋州话 (dānzhōuhuà)
• 儋縣 / 儋县 (Dānxiàn)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 儋 – see 擔 (“to carry on a shoulder pole; to bear; to shoulder; to undertake; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 擔).

References

• “儋”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

儋

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. small jar
2. to bear a burden
3. load of two

Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan)、せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)
• Kun: になう (ninau)、にたい (nitai)、こがめ (kogame)

Korean

Hanja

儋 (eum 담 (dam))

1. small jar

Vietnamese

Han character

儋: Hán Nôm readings: đam

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