旦

See also 蛋

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 日 + 一 – the sun (日) appearing over the horizon (一).

Also simplification of 詹, as in 担.

Han character

旦 (radical 72 日+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 日一 (AM), four-corner 6010₀, composition ⿱日一)

1. dawn
2. morning
3. day
4. actress

Derived characters

• 但 担 坦 怛 胆 疸

See also

• 量

References

• KangXi: page 489, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13734
• Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1483, character 1
• Unihan data for U+65E6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

旦 (Yale daan3)

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Japanese

Kanji

旦

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: あした (ashita)

Compounds

旦夕 (たんせき, tanseki) : sooner or later; imminent 元旦 (がんたん, gantan) : New Year's Day

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

旦 (pinyin dàn (dan4), gā (ga1), Wade-Giles tan⁴, ka¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

旦 (đán, đắn, đến)