擔

See also: 担

Translingual

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trad.		擔
simp.		担

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 + phonetic 詹 – to carry by hand. 詹 has meaning of “speak too much”, hence connotations of “carry too much”, bear a burden.

Han character

擔 (radical 64 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手弓金口 (QNCR), four-corner 5706₁, composition ⿰扌詹)

1. carry, bear, undertake

Descendants

• 担

References

• KangXi: page 459, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12828
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1971, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64D4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

擔 (simplified 担, Jyutping daam1, daam3, Yale daam1, daam3)

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Japanese

Kanji

擔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: たん (tan), けつ (ketsu), せん (sen)
• Kun: になう (ninau), かつぐ (katsugu), おう (ou)

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Korean

Hanja

擔 (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

擔 (simplified 担, Pinyin dān (dan1), Wade-Giles tan¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: đâm, đảm, tạ

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