dàn

eat

Evolution

啗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

dàn

eat, chew, bite; entice, lure

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dàn

variant of [dàn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-rˤamʔ

damX

dàn

eat

*m-rˤamʔ-s

damH

dàn

eat, swallow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5479th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5557

Shuowen

“啗,食也。从口,臽聲。讀與含同。”


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