壇

See also 坛

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 + phonetic 亶

Han character

壇 (radical 32 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土卜田一 (GYWM), four-corner 4011₆)

1. altar
2. arena, examination hall

References

• KangXi: page 240, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5528
• Dae Jaweon: page 480, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 492, character 12
• Unihan data for U+58C7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

壇 (simplified 坛, Yale taan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

壇 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: だん (dan), たん (tan)
• Kun: ば (ba), ところ (tokoro), たいら (taira)

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Korean

Hanja

壇 (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

壇 (simplified 坛, pinyin tán (tan2), Wade-Giles t'an²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壇 (đàn, đườn)