担

See also 擔

Translingual

simpl.		担
trad.		擔

Etymology

Simplified from 擔 (詹 → 旦).

In current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 旦 – to carry by hand, bear a burden.

Han character

担 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手日一 (QAM))

1. carry, bear, undertake
2. picul (100 catties, 50 kg)
3. two buckets full
4. carrying pole and its load
5. classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole

References

• KangXi: page 424, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11941
• Dae Jaweon: page 772, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1851, character 4
• Unihan data for U+62C5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

担 (traditional 擔, Yale daam1)

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Japanese

Kanji

担 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: になう (ninau), かつぐ (katsugu)

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Korean

Hanja

担 (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

担 (traditional 擔, pinyin dàn (dan4), Wade-Giles tan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

担 (đam đảm đẵn đắn đẵm tạ)