僤

僤	U+50E4, 僤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50E4

← 僣
[U+50E3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僥 →
[U+50E5]

Translingual

Han character

僤 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人口口十 (ORRJ), four-corner 2625₆, composition ⿰亻單)

sincere

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 117, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1112
Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 219, character 6
Unihan data for U+50E4

Chinese

trad.		僤
simp.		𫢸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僤
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Small seal script s05708 Transcribed ancient scripts L31804
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 (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
嚲	*taːlʔ
癉	taːlʔ, taːls, taːn, daːn
奲	taːlʔ, tʰjaːlʔ
驒	daːl, daːn, *teːn
鼉	*daːl
磾	*teːl
鷤	deːl, deːls, *daːn
觶	tjal, tjals
單	taːn, djan, djanʔ, djans
鄲	*taːn
殫	*taːn
簞	*taːn
匰	*taːn
襌	*taːn
彈	daːn, daːns
貚	daːn, deːn
撣	daːn, daːnʔ, daːns, djan, *taːnʔ
潬	*daːnʔ
僤	daːnʔ, daːns, *djan
憚	*daːns
樿	*tjanʔ
燀	tjanʔ, tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
戰	*tjans
闡	*tʰjanʔ
繟	*tʰjanʔ
幝	*tʰjanʔ
嘽	tʰaːn, tʰjanʔ
灛	*tʰjanʔ
蟬	*djan
禪	djan, djans
嬋	*djan
墠	*djanʔ
鱓	*djanʔ
蕇	*teːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan): semantic 亻 (“human”) + phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daan⁶

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: daan⁶
  - Yale: daahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dan⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn²²/

Middle Chinese: danX, danH

Rime
Character	僤	僤
Reading #	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒旱切	徒案切
Baxter	danX	danH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑn^X/	/dɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑn^X/	/dɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑn^X/	/dɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dan^X/	/dan^H/
Li Rong	/dɑn^X/	/dɑn^H/
Wang Li	/dɑn^X/	/dɑn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑn^X/	/dʱɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dàn	dàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daan⁶	daan⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*daːnʔ/, /*daːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僤	僤
Reading #	1/3	2/3
No.	2011	2015
Phonetic component	單	單
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	但	憚
Old Chinese	/*daːnʔ/	/*daːns/

Definitions

僤

(literary, obsolete) fast, swift
(literary, obsolete) great; profuse; profound

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
  - Wade–Giles: shan⁴
  - Yale: shàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
  - Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/

Definitions

僤

only used in 婉僤／婉𫢸

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 僤 – see 𨼒 (“a town of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 𨼒).

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 僤 – see 殫 (“to use up”). (This character is an obsolete form of 殫).

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 僤 – see 儃 (“attitude; appearance”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 儃).

References

羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “僤”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00165

Japanese

Kanji

僤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): たん (tan)、だん (dan)、せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)、たつ (tatsu)、たち (tachi)
Kun: はやい (hayai)、あつい (atsui)、あきらか (akiraka)、ゆるぐ (yurugu)

Korean

Hanja

僤 (eum 탄 (tan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

僤: Hán Nôm readings: dạn

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