譚

See also: 谭

Translingual

Han character

譚 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一田十 (YRMWJ), four-corner 0164₆, composition ⿰言覃)

Related characters

• 谭 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1182, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35978
• Dae Jaweon: page 1645, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4017, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8B5A

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Chinese

trad.		譚
simp.		谭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 譚
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鷣	*luː, *lɯm
撢	*l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛	*l̥ʰɯːms
潭	*l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃	*l'ɯːm
鐔	*l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫	*l'ɯːm
橝	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫	*l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂	*l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫	*l'ɯːmʔ
嘾	*l'ɯːmʔ
贉	*l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫	*l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈	*zlɯmʔ
鱏	*ljɯm, *lɯm
簟	*l'ɯːmʔ
驔	*l'ɯːmʔ
磹	*l'ɯːms

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thâm / tâm / tâⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tam⁵

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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: taam⁴
    • Yale: tàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâm
    • Tâi-lô: thâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tʰam²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâm
    • Tâi-lô: tâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daam
    • IPA (Taipei): /tam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam²³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvaa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tam⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thâm
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰam⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dom, domX

Rime
Character	譚	譚
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒含切	徒感切
Baxter	dom	domX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/	/dʌmX/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/	/dəmX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/	/dɒmX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/	/dəmX/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/	/dᴀmX/
Wang Li	/dɒm/	/dɒmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱăm/	/dʱămX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	dàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4	daam6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːm/, /*l'ɯːmʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	譚	譚
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12319	12331
Phonetic component	覃	覃
Rime group	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	覃	禫
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːm/	/*l'ɯːmʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 譚

1. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 談／谈 (tán, “to discuss”).
2. a surname

   譚詠麟／谭咏麟 [Cantonese]  ―  taam⁴ wing⁶ leon⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  Alan Tam

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Japanese

Kanji

譚

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Derived terms

• 民譚(みんだん) (mindan)
• 譚歌(たんか) (tanka)

Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan); だん (dan)
• Kun: はなし (hanashi, 譚)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
譚
たん Hyōgai
on'yomi

Suffix

譚(たん) • (-tan) 

1. story; tale

   変身(へんしん)譚(たん) ― henshin-tan ― story that features a metamorphosis

   『ディオニュソス譚(たん)』 ― “Dionyusosu-tan” ― Dionysiaca

See also

• 話(はなし) (hanashi), 物語(ものがたり) (monogatari)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 譚 (đàm)

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