但

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

但 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人日一 (OAM), four-corner 2621₀, composition ⿰亻旦)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 97, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 495
• Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 132, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4F46

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		但

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 但
Small seal script s05883 Transcribed ancient scripts L34714 L16006 L16007
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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, *daːnʔ, *daːns) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 旦 (OC *taːns).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 但

1. only
2. but; however; yet; still

   但是  ―  dànshì  ―  but

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

但

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: だん (dan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: ただし (tadashi, 但し, Jōyō)、ただ (tada, 但)

Noun

但(ただ) • (tada) 

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of 只

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Korean

Hanja

但 • (dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune–Reischauer tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 但 (đởn, đản, giản)

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References

• Nom Foundation