dān

a small jar

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

詹 sound component

  Sound component

zhān

  

talk too much

Evolution

儋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
儋 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
儋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dān

a small jar; to bear a burden; a load of two; carry

Most common words with 儋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

儋州

Danzhou City, Hainan

儋州市

Danzhou city, Hainan

carry

儋县

Dan county, Hainan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[mə-t]ˤam

tam

dān

carry on the shoulder


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5810th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+510B

Shuowen

“儋,何也。从人,詹聲。”


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