Wiktionary

旦

See also: 𣄼 and 且
旦 U+65E6, 旦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65E6
← 日
[U+65E5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 旧 →
[U+65E7]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

旦 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 日一 (AM), four-corner 60100, composition ⿱日一)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13734
  • Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1483, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+65E6

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 旦
 
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Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 旦
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (旦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皽 *tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担 *taːnʔ
胆 *daːn, *daːn
疸 *taːnʔ, *taːns
觛 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶 *taːnʔ
嬗 *taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦 *taːns
鴠 *taːns
譠 *tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦 *tʰaːnʔ
但 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀 *daːn
壇 *daːn
儃 *daːn, *djan
驙 *daːn, *tan
袒 *daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢 *daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵 *daːnʔ
膻 *daːnʔ
澶 *daːns, *djan
邅 *tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣 *tan
饘 *tjan, *tjanʔ
旜 *tjan
氈 *tjan
鸇 *tjan
顫 *tjans
蟺 *djanʔ
擅 *djans
羶 *hljan
呾 *taːd, *ʔraːd
怛 *taːd
妲 *taːd
靼 *taːd, *tjad
炟 *taːd

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 日 + 一 – the sun (日) appearing over the horizon (一).

Etymology 1 edit

Cognate with Chepang दारःदो (darʔ.do, “place of sunrise; in east”) (Schuessler, 2007). Unrelated to 丹 (OC *taːn, “cinnabar; red”).

Pronunciation edit

Note: tàn - literary.
Rime
Character 旦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 得按切
Baxter tanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tanH/
Li
Rong 		/tɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/tɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		daan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 旦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tanH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tˁan-s/
English dawn

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 旦
Reading # 1/1
No. 2051
Phonetic
component 		旦
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		旦
Old
Chinese 		/*taːns/

Definitions edit

旦

  1. (literary) early morning; dawn
    通宵達旦／通宵达旦  ―  tōngxiāodádàn  ―  all the night until dawn
  2. (literary) day
    旦旦  ―  dàndàn  ―  every day
  3. first day of a lunar month

Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

A post-classical word. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Note: tòaⁿ - vernacular.

Definitions edit

旦

  1. (Chinese opera) female character, particularly a lead role, in a traditional Chinese opera
  2. (Chinese opera) actor or actress known for playing such characters

Related terms edit

  • 生 (shēng, “male role”)
  • 淨／净 (jìng, “painted-face role”)
  • 丑 (chǒu, “clown role”)

Compounds edit

Etymology 3 edit

 
A sign reading 鸡旦炒饭 ("[chicken] egg fried rice"), which uses 旦 instead of 蛋
For pronunciation and definitions of 旦 – see 蛋 (“egg; egg-shaped object; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 蛋).
Notes:

Usage notes edit

May still be used as a shorthand.

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

旦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. morning
  2. dawn

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 旦 (MC tanH). Recorded as Middle Korean 단〯 (tǎn) (Yale: tan) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

旦 (eumhun 아침 단 (achim dan))

  1. Hanja form? of 단 (“early morning; dawn”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

旦: Hán Nôm readings: đán, đắn, đến

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