淡

See also 澹

Translingual

Han character

淡 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水火火 (EFF), four-corner 3918₉)

1. watered down, bland, modest, essential

References

• KangXi: page 630, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17660
• Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1660, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6DE1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

淡 (Yale daam6, taam5)

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Japanese

Kanji

淡 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たん (tan), えん (en)
• Kun: あわい (awai), うすい (usui)

Compounds

• 淡白 (たんぱく, tanpaku)
• 冷淡 (れいたん, reitan)
• 淡々と (たんたんと, tantanto)

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Korean

Hanja

淡 (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

淡 (pinyin dàn (dan4), tán (tan2), yǎn (yan3), yàn (yan4), Wade-Giles tan⁴, t'an², yen³, yen⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淡 (đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm)