萏

萏 U+840F, 萏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-840F ← 萎 [U+840E] CJK Unified Ideographs 萐 → [U+8410]

Translingual

Han character

萏 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓竹難 (TNHX), four-corner 4477₇, composition ⿱艹臽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1041, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31270
• Dae Jaweon: page 1500, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3237, character 12
• Unihan data for U+840F

Chinese

trad.		萏
simp. #		萏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊	*ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	*ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮	*ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	*ljom, *loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daam⁶
    • Yale: daahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm²²/

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• Middle Chinese: domX

Rime
Character	萏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒感切
Baxter	domX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/dəmX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəmX/
Li Rong	/dᴀmX/
Wang Li	/dɒmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daam6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*rˤomʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'oːmʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	萏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dàn
Middle Chinese	‹ domX ›
Old Chinese	/*rˁomʔ/
English	菡萏 homX.domX lotus flower
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	萏
Reading #	1/1
No.	13539
Phonetic component	臽
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	禫
Old Chinese	/*l'oːmʔ/

Definitions

萏

1. Only used in 菡萏 (hàndàn, “lotus flower”).

Japanese

Kanji

萏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan); どん (don)
• Kun: はなやか (hanayaka)