坍

坍 U+574D, 坍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-574D ← 坌 [U+574C] CJK Unified Ideographs 坎 → [U+574E]

Translingual

Han character

坍 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土月卜 (GBY), four-corner 4714₀, composition ⿰土丹)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 225, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4927
• Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 425, character 5
• Unihan data for U+574D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		坍
alternative forms		㘱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
那	*naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls
挪	*naːl
娜	*naːlʔ
柟	*noːm, *njam, *njamʔ
抩	*noːm
聃	*n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm
舑	*n̥ʰaːm, *njam
坍	*n̥ʰaːm
髯	*njam, *njams
蚺	*njam
呥	*njam
冉	*njam, *njamʔ
袡	*njam
苒	*njamʔ
姌	*njamʔ, *neːmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *n̥ʰaːm) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 丹 (OC *taːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tān (tan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tan
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan¹
    • Yale: tān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tan
    • Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taan¹
    • Yale: tāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːn⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*n̥ʰaːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	坍
Reading #	1/1
No.	10776
Phonetic component	冉
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	舑
Old Chinese	/*n̥ʰaːm/
Notes	㘱今字

Definitions

坍

1. to collapse; to topple

   房子坍了。  ―  Fángzi tān le.  ―  The house collapsed.

   • 只一膀子，搧在亭子柱上，只聽得刮剌剌一聲響亮，把亭子柱打折了，坍了亭子半邊。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     只一膀子，搧在亭子柱上，只听得刮剌剌一声响亮，把亭子柱打折了，坍了亭子半边。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Shi Nai'an, Water Margin, circa 14^th century CE

     Zhǐ yī bǎngzi, shān zài tíngzi zhù shàng, zhǐ tīng dé guālàlà yī shēng xiǎngliàng, bǎ tíngzi zhù dǎ zhé le, tān le tíngzi bàn biān. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Compounds

• 倒坍 (dǎotān)
• 坍塌 (tāntā)
• 坍壞／坍坏
• 坍方
• 坍毀／坍毁
• 坍縮星／坍缩星 (tānsuōxīng)
• 坍臺／坍台
• 坍落
• 崩坍 (bēngtān)

 

References

• “坍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

坍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan); とん (ton)

Korean

Hanja

坍 (eum 담 (dam))

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Vietnamese

Han character

坍: Nôm readings: đàn, than

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References

• Nom Foundation