# 儋

| 儋 | U+510B, &#20747; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-510B |
| ← 儊 [U+510A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 儌 → [U+510C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

儋 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人弓金口 (ONCR), four-corner 2726$_1$, composition ⿰亻詹)

#### Derived characters

* 𧀻

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 119, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1195
* Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 15
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 227, character 1
* Unihan data for U+510B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儋 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| Small seal scripts05737Transcribed ancient scriptsL33871L33872L33873L33874 |||
| References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script). |||
| | Old Chinese |
| 甔 | *toːm, *taːm, *taːms |
| 擔 | *taːm, *taːms |
| 儋 | *ʔl'aːm |
| 聸 | *taːm |
| 膽 | *taːmʔ |
| 黵 | *taːmʔ, *tjamʔ |
| 澹 | *daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms |
| 憺 | *daːmʔ, *daːms |
| 瞻 | *tjam |
| 詹 | *tjam |
| 蟾 | *tjam, *djam |
| 噡 | *tjam |
| 譫 | *tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb |
| 幨 | *tʰjam, *tʰjams |
| 襜 | *tʰjam, *tʰjams |
| 韂 | *tʰjams |
| 贍 | *djams |
| 檐 | *lam |
| 簷 | *lam |
| 舚 | *tʰeːm, *tʰeːms |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dān (dan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): daam$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dān
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dan
*** Wade–Giles: tan$^1$
*** Yale: dān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
*** Palladius: дань (danʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daam$^1$
*** Yale: dāam
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daam$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dam$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːm⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tam
Rime :
| Character | 儋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 談 (143) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 都甘切 |
| Baxter | tam |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /tɑm/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /tɑm/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tɑm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tam/ |
| Li Rong | /tɑm/ |
| Wang Li | /tɑm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /tɑm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | dān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | daam$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[mə-t]ˤam/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'aːm/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 儋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | dān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tam › |
| Old Chinese | /*[mə-t]ˁam/ |
| English | carry on the shoulder |
| 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 | 儋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16748 |
| Phonetic component | 詹 |
| Rime group | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 擔 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔl'aːm/ |
| Notes | 後作擔 |

#### Definitions

儋
* Only used in 儋縣／儋县 (Dānxiàn) and 儋州 (Dānzhōu).
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 儋州 (Dānzhōu)
* 儋州話／儋州话 (dānzhōuhuà)
* 儋縣／儋县 (Dānxiàn)

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 儋 – see 擔 (“to carry on a shoulder pole; to bear; to shoulder; to undertake; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 擔).

### References

* “儋”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* small jar
* to bear a burden
* load of two

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): たん (tan)、せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)
* Kun: になう (ninau)、にたい (nitai)、こがめ (kogame)

## Korean
### Hanja

儋 (eum 담 (dam))
* small jar

## Vietnamese
### Han character

儋: Hán Nôm readings: đam
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