歎

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See also: 叹 and 嘆
歎 U+6B4E, 歎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B4E
← 歍
[U+6B4D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 歏 →
[U+6B4F]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

歎 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿人弓人 (TONO), four-corner 47582, composition ⿰𦰩欠)

Derived characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 571, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16182
  • Dae Jaweon: page 959, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2149, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6B4E

Chinese[edit]

trad. 歎/嘆
simp. 叹*
alternative forms 歏
𪇽
𣥁

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (暵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
儺 *naːl
臡 *naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆 *n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹 *n̥ʰaːn
攤 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱 *n̥ʰaːn
歎 *n̥ʰaːns
難 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢 *hnaːns
戁 *rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 歎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他旦切
Baxter thanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰanH/
Li
Rong 		/tʰɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/tʰɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		taan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ than ›
Old
Chinese 		/*n̥ˁar/
English to sigh

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 歎
Reading # 1/1
No. 4896
Phonetic
component 		暵
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		炭
Old
Chinese 		/*n̥ʰaːns/

Definitions[edit]

歎

  1. Alternative form of 嘆 (“to sigh; to chant; to praise”).
  2. one of 24 literary genres from the Zhou dynasty
  3. a surname.

Hypernyms[edit]

Coordinate terms[edit]

literary genre

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

歎

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings[edit]

  • On (unclassified): たん (tan)
  • Kun: なげく (nageku, 歎く)

Compounds[edit]

Definitions[edit]

Kanji in this term
歎
たん
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 歎 – see the following entry.
【嘆たん】S
[noun] sigh
(This term, 歎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese 歎 (MC tʰɑnH).

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

歎 (eumhun 탄식할 탄 (tansikhal tan))

  1. Hanja form? of 탄 (“sigh”).

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

歎: Hán Việt readings: thán (他(tha)案(án)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
歎: Nôm readings: than[4][3], thăn[4][3]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
  2. ^ Bonet (1899).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Génibrel (1898).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hồ (1976).
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