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)

Derived characters

𢳞, 𣼚, 䔜

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

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

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/

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/
Bernhard 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

聃

(literary, of ears) large and long
a surname

Compounds

彭聃
老聃 (Lǎodān)

Korean

Hanja

聃 (eum 담 (dam))

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