淡

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See also: 澹
淡 U+6DE1, 淡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DE1
← 淠
[U+6DE0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 淢 →
[U+6DE2]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character[edit]

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

  1. watered down, bland, modest, essential

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam)

Etymology 1[edit]

simp. and trad.
 淡

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • taam5 - vernacular;
  • daam6 - literary.
  • Gan
  • Hakka
  • Jin
  • Min Dong
  • Min Nan
    • Note:
    • tāⁿ - vernacular;
    • tām - literary.
    Note:
    • dan6 - vernacular;
    • dam6 - literary.
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • Note:
    • dan5 - vernacular;
    • dan4 - literary.
    Rime
    Character 淡 淡
    Reading # 2/4 4/4
    Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
    Final (韻) 談 (143) 談 (143)
    Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open Open
    Division (等) I I
    Fanqie 徒敢切 徒濫切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/damX/ /damH/
    Li
    Rong         		/dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
    Wang
    Li         		/dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/dʱɑmX/ /dʱɑmH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		dàn dàn
    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
    Reading # 2/4 3/4
    No. 14300 14305
    Phonetic
    component         		炎 炎
    Rime
    group         		談 談
    Rime
    subdivision         		1 1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		噉 憺
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/

    Definitions[edit]

    淡

    1. (of food) bland; tasteless
      啲湯好淡 / 啲汤好淡 [Cantonese]  ―  di1 tong1 hou2 taam5 [Jyutping]  ―  the soup is very bland
    2. (of color) light; pale
      Synonyms: 淺／浅 (qiǎn)
      Antonyms: 濃／浓 (nóng), 深 (shēn)

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 淡

    Etymology 2[edit]

    simp. and trad.
    		 淡

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Rime
    Character 淡
    Reading # 3/4
    Initial (聲) 以 (36)
    Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
    Tone (調) Rising (X)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 以冉切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/jiᴇmX/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/jiɛmX/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/jæmX/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/jiamX/
    Li
    Rong         		/iɛmX/
    Wang
    Li         		/jĭɛmX/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/i̯ɛmX/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		yǎn
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 淡
    Reading # 4/4
    No. 14319
    Phonetic
    component         		炎
    Rime
    group         		談
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		琰
    Old
    Chinese         		/*lamʔ/
    Notes 見宋玉賦

    Definitions[edit]

    淡

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology 3[edit]

    simp. and trad.
    		 淡

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Rime
    Character 淡
    Reading # 1/4
    Initial (聲) 定 (7)
    Final (韻) 談 (143)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 徒甘切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/dɑm/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/dɑm/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/dɑm/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/dam/
    Li
    Rong         		/dɑm/
    Wang
    Li         		/dɑm/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/dʱɑm/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		tán
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 淡
    Reading # 1/4
    No. 14296
    Phonetic
    component         		炎
    Rime
    group         		談
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		談
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l'aːm/

    Definitions[edit]

    淡

    1. Alternative form of 痰 (tán).

    Etymology 4[edit]

    For pronunciation and definitions of 淡 – see 䭕 (“(Min) tasteless; insipid”).
    (This character, 淡, is a variant form of 䭕.)

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    淡

    (common “Jōyō” kanji)

    1. diluted
    2. pale

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

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

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    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    淡 (đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm)

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