坦

Translingual

Han character

坦 (radical 32 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土日一 (GAM), four-corner 4611₀, composition ⿰土旦)

1. flat, smooth
2. self-possessed

References

• KangXi: page 226, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4971
• Dae Jaweon: page 461, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 431, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5766

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		坦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎn (tan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: t'an³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taan
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰa̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: taan²
    • Yale: táan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan²
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (坦, reconstructed)
Character (坦), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 透 (6) Final: 寒 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 他旦切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tʰɑnX/	/tʰɑnX/	/tʰɑnX/	/tʰɑnX/	/tʰanX/	/tʰɑnX/	/tʰɑnX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (坦, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
坦								tǎn								‹ thanX ›								/*[tʰ]ˤa[n]ʔ/								level, at ease
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
坦					2059					旦					元					1					坦					/*tʰaːnʔ/

Compounds

• 坦克

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Japanese

Kanji

坦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: たいら (taira)

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Korean

Hanja

坦 (tan) (hangeul 탄, revised tan, McCune-Reischauer t'an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

坦 (thản, đất, đắt, đứt, đật, ngẩn, thưỡn)

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