亶

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 㐭 + phonetic 旦

In some fonts, the lower component is simplified to 且, particularly in derived characters.

Han character

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

1. sincere
2. real, true
3. truth

Derived characters

• 顫, 擅, 壇, 膻, 檀, 嬗, 氊, 氈, 儃, 饘, 鸇, 𧾍, 䁴, 驙, 澶, 鱣, 蟺, 𨭖

References

• KangXi: page 89, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 328
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 291, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4EB6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

亶 (Yale taan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

亶

Readings

• On: たん (tan), せん (sen), ぜん (zen)
• Kun: あつい (atsui), まこと (makoto)

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Korean

Hanja

亶 (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

亶 (pinyin dǎn (dan3), Wade-Giles tan³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

亶 (đàn, đản(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?))

References

• Nom Foundation