聃

聃 U+8043, 聃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8043 ← 聂 [U+8042] CJK Unified Ideographs 聄 → [U+8044]

Translingual

Han character

聃 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸十土月 (SJGB), four-corner 1544₇, composition ⿰耳冉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 966, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29039
• Dae Jaweon: page 1414, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2786, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8043

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Chinese

trad.		聃
simp. #		聃
alternative forms		耼 𦕐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
那	*naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls
挪	*naːl
娜	*naːlʔ
柟	*noːm, *njam, *njamʔ
抩	*noːm
聃	*n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm
舑	*n̥ʰaːm, *njam
坍	*n̥ʰaːm
髯	*njam, *njams
蚺	*njam
呥	*njam
冉	*njam, *njamʔ
袡	*njam
苒	*njamʔ
姌	*njamʔ, *neːmʔ

Originally written as 耼.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dan
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹
    • Yale: dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: daam¹
    • Yale: dāam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dam¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tham

Rime
Character	聃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他酣切
Baxter	tham
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰam/
Li Rong	/tʰɑm/
Wang Li	/tʰɑm/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*n̥ʰaːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	聃	聃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10773	10775
Phonetic component	冉	冉
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	舑	舑
Old Chinese	/*n̥ʰaːm/	/*n̥ʰaːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 聃

1. (literary, of ears) large and long
2. a surname

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Korean

Hanja

聃 (eum 담 (dam))

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