單

See also 单, and 単

Translingual

shinjitai	単
simplified	单
traditional	單

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a net to catch animals. The two boxes at the top are weights, the middle section is the net, the bottom is the rope.

Graphically, 吅 + 𠦆.

Han character

單 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口口田十 (RRWJ), four-corner 6650₆, composition ⿱吅𠦆)

1. single, individual, only
2. lone
3. numerary adjunct for legal case (Cantonese)

Derived characters

• 禪, 憚, 貚, 闡, 撣, 殫, 嬋, 戰, 彈, 蟬, 驒, 襌, 僤, 幝, 簞, 樿, 蕇, 鄲, 癉, 嘽, 觶, 燀, 奲, 鱓, 墠, 繟, 匰, 鼉

Descendants

• 单 単
• 占 (in some characters, such as 战)

References

• KangXi: page 200, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3993
• Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 654, character 6
• Unihan data for U+55AE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

單 (simplified 单, jyutping daan1, sin3, Yale daan1, sin3)

1. single, lone
2. Sin, a Cantonese surname

Compounds

• 單車
• 唔單至

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Japanese

Kanji

單

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: ひとえ (hitoe)

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Korean

Hanja

單 (hangeul 단, 선, revised dan, seon, McCune-Reischauer tan, sŏn, Yale tan, sen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

單 (simplified 单, pinyin dān (dan1), shàn (shan4), chán (chan2), Wade-Giles tan¹)

1. single, lone
2. Shan, a surname

Compounds

• 單身

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Vietnamese

Han character

單 (đơn, đan, thiền, truyên)

References

• Nom Foundation