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淡

淡

See also: 澹

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

淡 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水火火 (EFF), four-corner 39189) jjj

  1. watered down, bland, modest, essential

References

  • KangXi: page 630, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17660
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1660, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6DE1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 淡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淡 淡 淡 淡
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7) 以 (36) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143) 談 (143) 鹽 (153) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division (等) I I III I
Fanqie 徒甘切 徒敢切 以冉切 徒濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jiᴇmX/ /dɑmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jiɛmX/ /dɑmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jæmX/ /dɑmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dam/ /damX/ /jiamX/ /damH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /iɛmX/ /dɑmH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑm/ /dɑmX/ /jĭɛmX/ /dɑmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑm/ /dʱɑmX/ /i̯ɛmX/ /dʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán dàn yǎn dàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 淡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ damX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]ˤamʔ/
English insipid

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 淡 淡 淡 淡
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 14296 14300 14305 14319
Phonetic
component		 炎 炎 炎 炎
Rime
group		 談 談 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 談 噉 憺 琰
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːm/ /*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/ /*lamʔ/
Notes 見宋玉賦

Definitions

淡

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Japanese

Kanji

淡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. diluted
  2. pale

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

淡 • ‎(dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淡 (đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm)

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