# 膻

| 膻 | U+81BB, &#33211; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81BB |
| ← 膺 [U+81BA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 膼 → [U+81BC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

膻 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月卜田一 (BYWM), four-corner 7021$_6$, composition ⿰⺼亶)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 995, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29929
* Dae Jaweon: page 1446, character 31
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2117, character 9
* Unihan data for U+81BB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 膻
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːnʔ) : semantic ⺼ + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

### Pronunciation 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 膻 – see 羶 (“rank odor”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 羶).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dàn (dan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): daan$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
*** Wade–Giles: tan$^4$
*** Yale: dàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
*** Palladius: дань (danʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tän⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daan$^6$
*** Yale: daahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daan$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dan$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːn²²/
* Middle Chinese: danX
Rime :
| Character | 膻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 徒旱切 |
| Baxter | danX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /dɑn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /dɑn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dɑn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dan$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /dɑn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /dɑn$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /dʱɑn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | dàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | daan$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.tan/
    (Zhengzhang): /*daːnʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 膻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syen › |
| Old Chinese | /*s.tan/ |
| English | smell of sheep |
| 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 | 膻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2071 |
| Phonetic component | 旦 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 但 |
| Old Chinese | /*daːnʔ/ |
| Notes | 通作袒 |

#### Definitions

膻
* Only used in 膻中 (“centre of chest”).

#### Compounds

* 膻中

### References

* “膻”, 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–
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03228-005
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03716

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* liver

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): たん (tan)
* Kun: きも (kimo, 膻)

## Korean
### Hanja

膻 • (dan, jeon) (hangeul 단, 전, revised dan, jeon, McCune–Reischauer tan, chŏn)
* strip
* rank odor (of sheep or goats)