但

但 U+4F46, 但 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F46 ← 佅 [U+4F45] CJK Unified Ideographs 佇 → [U+4F47]

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).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan², daan⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): than / thán
• Eastern Min (BUC): dáng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tān / nā

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dang⁶

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵te

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan², daan⁶
    • Yale: dáan, daahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan², daan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan², dan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn³⁵/, /taːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: than / thán
    • Hakka Romanization System: tan / tan`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tan⁴ / tan³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰan⁵⁵/, /tʰan³¹/

Note: thán - archaic.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tān
    • Tâi-lô: tān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dan
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tan²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tan³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nā
    • Tâi-lô: nā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: na
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nã²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /nã³³/

Note:

• tān - literary;
• nā - vernacular (limited, e.g. 毋但).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dang⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tăng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵te
    • MiniDict: te^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²te
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /te³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: dan, danX, danH

Rime
Character	但	但	但
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	I
Fanqie	徒干切	徒旱切	徒案切
Baxter	dan	danX	danH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑn/	/dɑnX/	/dɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑn/	/dɑnX/	/dɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑn/	/dɑnX/	/dɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dan/	/danX/	/danH/
Li Rong	/dɑn/	/dɑnX/	/dɑnH/
Wang Li	/dɑn/	/dɑnX/	/dɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑn/	/dʱɑnX/	/dʱɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	dàn	dàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taan4	daan6	daan6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤa[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːn/, /*daːnʔ/, /*daːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	但
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dàn
Middle Chinese	‹ danX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁa[n]ʔ/
English	only
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	但	但	但
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	2060	2067	2072
Phonetic component	旦	旦	旦
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	壇	但	憚
Old Chinese	/*daːn/	/*daːnʔ/	/*daːns/
Notes	通作袒

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

(common “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