段

See also: 假 and 殷

段 U+6BB5, 段 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BB5 ← 殴 [U+6BB4] CJK Unified Ideographs 殶 → [U+6BB6]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

段 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十竹弓水 (HJHNE), four-corner 7744₇, composition ⿰⿰丨亖殳)

Derived characters

• 𠩻, 𨺣, 𪝒, 塅, 缎, 𢀤, 𢝪, 𢯫, 𣹂, 𪦋, 㱭, 椴, 煅, 瑖, 腶, 𪰴, 碫, 锻 緞, 葮, 𧎚, 毈, 𧷃, 𧹮, 𨉨, 𫏗, 鍛, 𩋦, 𩏇, 𩤣, 𩹨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 584, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16619
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2155, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6BB5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		段

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 段
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鍛	*toːns
腶	*toːns
碫	*toːns
瑖	*toːns
緞	*doːnʔ, *doːns
段	*doːns
椴	*doːns
毈	*doːns

Origin is unknown or unclear.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 段

1. section; piece; division
2. administrative unit; department
3. (sports) grade; level (in chess, martial arts, etc.)
4. Classifier for a segment or section of something that is long: piece; segment
5. Classifier for a distance or a period of time.
6. Classifier for writing, speech, etc.
7. a surname

   段祺瑞  ―  Duàn Qíruì  ―  Duan Qirui (Chinese warlord and politician)

Usage notes

The component on the left-hand side of the character can be referred to as 段字旁 (duànzìpáng).

Synonyms

• (classifier for a segment or section): (Cantonese, Min) 橛 (gyut⁶)

Descendants

• → Thai: ตอน (dtɔɔn)

Further reading

• (Min Nan pronunciation audio) “Entry #5136”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

段

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. step
2. rank; grade

Readings

• Go-on: だん (dan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: きたえる (kitaeru)、わかち (wakachi)

Compounds

• 値(ね)段(だん) (nedan): price
• 初(しょ)段(だん) (shodan)
• 段(だん)ボール (danbōru)
• 段(だん)位(い) (dan'i)
• 階(かい)段(だん) (kaidan): stairs

 

Etymology

Kanji in this term
段
だん Grade: 6
on'yomi

Noun

段(だん) • (dan) 

1. steps (up and down); stairs
2. rating; ranking
3. row; line (of text)
4. (mathematics) multiplication table

   12(じゅうに)の段(だん)

   jūni no dan

   12 times table

5. (typography) the equivalent to a column in Western layout, but that can be horizontal or vertical depending on the writing direction

   Meronym: 行 (gyō, “line”)

   段(だん)数(すう)

   dansū

   a column count

   段(だん)間(かん)

   dankan

   column spacing; gutter

Suffix

段(だん) • (-dan) 

1. (after a number) -th rank; -th degree black belt (in karate, judo, etc)
2. a section (horizonal line) in the gojūon table, which consists of kanas that have or historically have a same vowel

   は行(ぎょう)う段(だん)

   ha-gyō u-dan

   row ha, section u (of consonant /h/ and vowel /u/)

3. (typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 1408 mils, ¹⁴⁰⁸⁄₁₀₀₀ in, 128 U (U) and 16 倍 (bai)

Coordinate terms

• 行(ぎょう) (gyō)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 段 (MC dwanH). Recorded as Middle Korean ⿰⿰丨亖⿱コ又/단〯 (tǎn) (Yale: tan) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

段 (eumhun 구분 단 (gubun dan))

1. hanja form^? of 단 (“step”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 수단 (手段, sudan, “procedure; method”)
• 계단 (階段, gyedan, “stairs”)
• 특단 (特段, teukdan, “being special”)
• 문단 (文段, mundan, “paragraph”)
• 단계 (段階, dan'gye, “stage, level”)
• 단계적 (段階的, dan'gyejeok, “phased”)
• 단락 (段落, dallak, “paragraph”)
• 일단락 (一段落, ildallak)
• 구구단 (九九段, gugudan)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

段: Hán Nôm readings: đoạn, đoàn

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