淡

See also: 澹

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

淡 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水火火 (EFF), four-corner 3918₉) jjj

1. watered down, bland, modest, essential

References

• KangXi: page 630, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17660
• Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1660, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6DE1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		淡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁵, daam⁶, jim⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • IPA ^(key): /ta̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: taam⁵, daam⁶, jim⁵
    • Yale: táahm, daahm, yíhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁵, daam⁶, jim⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑːm¹³/, /tɑːm²²/, /jiːm¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /dɑm/, /dɑm^X/, /jiᴇm^X/, /dɑm^H/▼

Rime
Character	淡	淡	淡	淡
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)	以 (36)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	談 (143)	鹽 (153)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	III	I
Fanqie	徒甘切	徒敢切	以冉切	徒濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑm/	/dɑmX/	/jiᴇmX/	/dɑmH/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑm/	/dɑmX/	/jiɛmX/	/dɑmH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑm/	/dɑmX/	/jæmX/	/dɑmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dam/	/damX/	/jiamX/	/damH/
Li Rong	/dɑm/	/dɑmX/	/iɛmX/	/dɑmH/
Wang Li	/dɑm/	/dɑmX/	/jĭɛmX/	/dɑmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑm/	/dʱɑmX/	/i̯ɛmX/	/dʱɑmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	dàn	yǎn	dàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[l]ˤamʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːm/, /*l'aːmʔ/, /*l'aːms/, /*lamʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	淡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dàn
Middle Chinese	‹ damX ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]ˤamʔ/
English	insipid
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	淡	淡	淡	淡
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	14296	14300	14305	14319
Phonetic component	炎	炎	炎	炎
Rime group	談	談	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	談	噉	憺	琰
Old Chinese	/*l'aːm/	/*l'aːmʔ/	/*l'aːms/	/*lamʔ/
Notes				見宋玉賦

Definitions

淡

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Japanese

Kanji

淡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. diluted
2. pale

Readings

• Goon: だん (dan) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: たん (tan)
• On (unclassified): えん (en)
• Kun: あわい (awai), うすい (usui)

Compounds

• 淡白 (たんぱく) ‎(tanpaku)
• 冷淡 (れいたん) ‎(reitan)
• 淡々 (たんたん) ‎(tantan)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

淡 (đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm)

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