檀

檀 U+6A80, 檀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A80 ← 橿 [U+6A7F] CJK Unified Ideographs 檁 → [U+6A81]

Translingual

Han character

檀 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木卜田一 (DYWM), four-corner 4091₆, composition ⿰木亶)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 555, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15632
• Dae Jaweon: page 945, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1305, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6A80

Chinese

simp. and trad.		檀
2nd round simp.		枟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 檀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
皽	*tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担	*taːnʔ
胆	*daːn, *daːn
疸	*taːnʔ, *taːns
觛	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶	*taːnʔ
嬗	*taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦	*taːns
鴠	*taːns
譠	*tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦	*tʰaːnʔ
但	*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀	*daːn
壇	*daːn
儃	*daːn, *djan
驙	*daːn, *tan
袒	*daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢	*daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵	*daːnʔ
膻	*daːnʔ
澶	*daːns, *djan
邅	*tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣	*tan
饘	*tjan, *tjanʔ
旜	*tjan
氈	*tjan
鸇	*tjan
顫	*tjans
蟺	*djanʔ
擅	*djans
羶	*hljan
呾	*taːd, *ʔraːd
怛	*taːd
妲	*taːd
靼	*taːd, *tjad
炟	*taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daːn): semantic 木 + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thàn
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tân / tôaⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²
    • Yale: tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarn
    • Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: taan⁴
    • Yale: tàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thàn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tan^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tan²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰan¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tân
    • Tâi-lô: tân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daan
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tôaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tuânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvoaa
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tuã²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tuã¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /tuã²⁴/

Note:

• tân - literary;
• tôaⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: tang⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thâng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dan

Rime
Character	檀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒干切
Baxter	dan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dan/
Li Rong	/dɑn/
Wang Li	/dɑn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	檀
Reading #	1/1
No.	2062
Phonetic component	旦
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	壇
Old Chinese	/*daːn/

Definitions

檀

1. Name of several kind of plants, including:
   1. 紫檀 (zǐtán, “Pterocarpus indicus”)
   2. 青檀 (“Pteroceltis tatarinowii”)
   3. 黃檀／黄檀 (huángtán, “Dalbergia hupeana”)
   4. short for 旃檀 (“Santalum album”), also known as 檀香 (tánxiāng)
2. purple-red
3. a surname

Compounds

• 伐檀
• 印度黃檀 / 印度黄檀 (Yìndù huángtán)
• 層檀 / 层檀 (Céngtán)
• 旃檀 (zhāntán)
• 栴檀 (zhāntán)
• 檀信 (tánxìn)
• 檀口
• 檀弓
• 檀施 (tánshī)
• 檀暈妝 / 檀晕妆
• 檀木靴
• 檀林
• 檀板 (tánbǎn)
• 檀槽
• 檀檀 (Tántán)
• 檀欒 / 檀栾
• 檀溪 (Tánxī)
• 檀粉
• 檀越 (tányuè)
• 檀車 / 檀车
• 檀那 (tánnà)
• 檀郎
• 檀郎謝女 / 檀郎谢女
• 檀香 (tánxiāng)
• 檀香山 (Tánxiāng Shān)
• 檀香扇
• 欃檀
• 毚檀
• 白檀 (báitán)
• 紫檀 (zǐtán)
• 邏逤檀 / 逻逤檀
• 阿檀
• 馬躍檀溪 / 马跃檀溪
• 黑檀木 (hēitánmù)

Japanese

Kanji

檀

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だん (dan, 檀)
• Kan-on: たん (tan, 檀)
• Kun: まゆみ (mayumi, 檀)

Compounds

• 黒檀(こくたん) (kokutan)
• 紫檀(したん) (shitan)
• 白檀(びゃくだん) (byakudan): Indian sandalwood (Santalum album)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
檀
だん Jinmeiyō
goon

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dã̠ɴ]

Noun

檀(だん) • (dan) 

1. (Buddhism) short for 檀那 (danna, “generosity, almsgiving”)

Proper noun

檀(だん) • (Dan) 

1. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
檀
たん Jinmeiyō
kan'on

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tã̠ɴ]

Noun

檀(たん) • (tan) 

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Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
檀
まゆみ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 檀 – see the following entry.

【真弓まゆみ】 [noun] 檀, マユミ, 万由三, 末由美, 麻由美: Hamilton's spindletree [noun] 檀, 檀弓: bow made of the wood of Hamilton's spindletree [noun] One type of color layering in traditional Japanese costume, with 蘇芳 (suō, “deep red”) on the outside and yellow on the inside. It is used mostly in the autumn. Alternative spellings マユミ, 万由三, 末由美, 麻由美, 檀弓

(This term, 檀, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲檀”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 檀 (MC dan).

Historical readings
Dongguk Jeongun reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	딴 (Yale: ttàn)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ta̠n]
• Phonetic hangul: [단]

Hanja

檀 (eumhun 박달나무 단 (bakdallamu dan))

1. hanja form^? of 단 (“birch tree”) [affix]

   Synonyms: 橽, 樺

2. hanja form^? of 단 (“sandalwood tree”) [affix]

   Synonyms: 栴, 楝, 栲, 栝

3. hanja form^? of 단 (“short for Dangun”) [affix]
4. hanja form^? of 단 (“dana (Buddhism)”) [affix]

Compounds

• 경지전단 (瓊枝旃檀, gyeongjijeondan, “virtuous man of talent”)
• 단가 (檀家, dan'ga, “household giving dana”)
• 단군 (檀君, Dan'gun, “Dangun”)
• 단군왕검 (檀君王儉, Dan'gunwanggeom, “Dangun”)
• 단궁 (檀弓, dan'gung, “birch bow”)
• 단기 (檀紀, dan'gi, “Dangun era”)
• 단도 (檀徒, dando, “those who give dana”)
• 단목 (檀木, danmok, “birch”)
• 단상 (檀像, dansang, “wooden Buddha”)
• 단시 (檀施, dansi, “dana”)
• 단향 (檀香, danhyang, “sandalwood”)
• 단향목 (檀香木, danhyangmok, “sandalwood”)
• 백단 (白檀, baekdan, “white sandalwood”)
• 백단향 (白檀香, baekdanhyang, “white sandalwood”)
• 자단 (紫檀, jadan, “rosewood”)
• 전단 (栴檀, jeondan, “sandalwood”)
• 진단 (震檀, Jindan, “Korea”)
• 흑단 (黑檀, heukdan, “black sandalwood”)

Vietnamese

Han character

檀: Hán Nôm readings: đàn, trầm

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