單

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 2.1.1 Compounds 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 吅 + 𠦆

[edit] Han character

單 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口口田十 (RRWJ), four-corner 6650₆)

1. single, individual, only
2. lone
3. numerary adjunct for legal case (cantonese)

[edit] Descendants

• 禪, 憚, 貚, 闡, 撣, 殫, 嬋, 戰, 彈, 蟬, 驒, 襌, 僤, 幝, 簞, 樿, 蕇, 鄲, 癉, 嘽, 觶, 燀, 奲, 鱓, 墠, 繟, 匰, 鼉

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 200, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3993
• Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 654, character 6
• Unihan data for U+55AE

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

單 (simplified 单, Yale daan1, sin3)

1. single, lone
2. Sin, a Cantonese surname

[edit] Compounds

• 單車
• 唔單至

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

單

[edit] Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: ひとえ (hitoe)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

單 (hangeul 단, 선, revised dan, seon, McCune-Reischauer tan, sŏn)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

單 (simplified 单, pinyin dān (dan1), shàn (shan4), Wade-Giles tan¹)

1. single, lone
2. Shan, a surname

[edit] Compounds

• 單身

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

單 (đan, đơn, thiền, truyên)