dǎn
gall bladder
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 詹 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]ˤamʔ | tamX | dǎn | gall |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.6447% of movies
1370th most common character in movies
1352nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+81BD |
Shuowen | “膽,連肝之府。从肉,詹聲。” |
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