壜

壜 U+58DC, 壜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58DC ← 壛 [U+58DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 壝 → [U+58DD]

Translingual

Han character

壜 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 土日一戈 (GAMI), composition ⿰土曇)

1. earthen jar or jug

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 242, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5588
• Dae Jaweon: page 481, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 499, character 13
• Unihan data for U+58DC

Chinese

trad.		壜
simp.		坛*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
曇	*duːm
壜	*duːm

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²
    • Yale: tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarn
    • Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: taam⁴
    • Yale: tàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dom

Rime
Character	壜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒含切
Baxter	dom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/
Wang Li	/dɒm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*duːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	壜
Reading #	1/1
No.	12354
Phonetic component	曇
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	覃
Old Chinese	/*duːm/

Definitions

壜

1. alternative form of 罈 / 坛 (tán, “earthenware jar”)