擔

See also: 担

Contents

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *taːm, *taːms): semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 詹 ‎(OC *tjam) – to carry by hand. 詹 has meaning of “speak too much”, hence connotations of “carry too much”, bear a burden.

Han characterEdit

擔 (radical 64 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手弓金口 (QNCR), four-corner 5706₁, composition ⿰扌詹)

DescendantsEdit

• 担

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 459, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12828
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1971, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64D4

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ChineseEdit

trad.		擔
simp.		担

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daam¹, daam³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: tan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
    • IPA ^(key): /ta̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daam¹, daam³
    • Yale: dāam, daam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daam¹, daam³
    • IPA ^(key): /tɑːm⁵⁵/, /tɑːm³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tɑm/, /tɑm^H/▼

Rime
Character	擔	擔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	都甘切	都濫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tɑm/	/tɑmH/
Pan Wuyun	/tɑm/	/tɑmH/
Shao Rongfen	/tɑm/	/tɑmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tam/	/tamH/
Li Rong	/tɑm/	/tɑmH/
Wang Li	/tɑm/	/tɑmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tɑm/	/tɑmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dān	dàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mə-tˤam/, /*tˤam/, /*mə-tˤam-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*taːm/, /*taːms/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	擔	擔	擔
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dān	dàn	dàn
Middle Chinese	‹ tam ›	‹ tam ›	‹ tamH ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-tˤam/	/*tˤam/	/*mə-tˤam-s/
English	carry on the shoulder	burden	burden
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	擔	擔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16747	16753
Phonetic component	詹	詹
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	擔	擔
Old Chinese	/*taːm/	/*taːms/
Notes	見國語說文作儋

VerbEdit

擔

1. to carry, to bear, to undertake

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

擔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: たん (tan)
• Kan’on: たん (tan)
• On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu), せん (sen)
• Kun: になう (ninau), かつぐ (katsugu), おう (ou)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

• Hán Việt: đâm, đảm, tạ

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