壇

See also: 坛 and 𡊨
壇 U+58C7, 壇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58C7
← 壆
[U+58C6]
CJK Unified Ideographs 壈 →
[U+58C8]

Translingual

Stroke order
16 strokes

Han character

壇 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土卜田一 (GYWM), four-corner 40116, composition ⿰土亶)

  1. altar
  2. arena, examination hall

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 240, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5528
  • Dae Jaweon: page 480, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 492, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+58C7

Chinese

trad. 壇
simp. 坛*

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *daːn) : semantic 土 + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • tân/thân - literary;
  • tôaⁿ - vernacular.

Rime
Character 壇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒干切
Baxter dan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dan/
Li
Rong
/dɑn/
Wang
Li
/dɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
taan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 壇 壇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shàn tán
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyenX › ‹ dan ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]anʔ/ /*[d]ˁan/
English leveled area altar

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 壇
Reading # 1/1
No. 2063
Phonetic
component
旦
Rime
group
元
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
壇
Old
Chinese
/*daːn/

Definitions

壇

  1. altar (Classifier: 座)
    中華世紀壇/中华世纪坛  ―  zhōnghuá shìjì tán  ―  China Millennium Monument
  2. raised plot of land for planting flowers, etc.
    花壇/花坛  ―  huātán  ―  raised flowerbed
  3. forum; place for giving lectures or speeches
    論壇/论坛  ―  lùntán  ―  forum
  4. circles
    文壇/文坛  ―  wéntán  ―  literary circles
    體壇/体坛  ―  tǐtán  ―  sports world
  5. (Cantonese) Classifier for affairs or matters.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (壇):
  • → Japanese: 壇(だん) (dan)
  • → Korean: 단(壇) (dan)

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 壇
Kyūjitai
[1]

壇󠄂
壇+&#xE0102;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
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Kanji

壇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. podium, stage, rostrum, terrace

Readings

Proper noun

壇(だん) • (Dan) 

  1. a surname

References

  1. Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 554 (paper), page 327 (digital)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource 壇 (eumhun 제단 단 (jedan dan))

  1. Hanja form? of 제 (“altar”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

壇: Hán Nôm readings: đàn, đường

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