憚

憚 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 心口口十 (PRRJ), four-corner 9605₆, composition ⿰忄單)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11222
• Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2354, character 8
• Unihan data for U+619A

Historical forms of the character 憚
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːns) : semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r (“to shiver, to tremble”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

憚

1. (literary) to fear

   • 我心憚暑、憂心如熏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     我心惮暑、忧心如熏。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Wǒxīn dàn shǔ, yōuxīn rú xūn. [Pinyin]

     My heart is terrified with the heat; - my sorrowing heart is as if on fire.

   • 我向來是不憚以最壞的惡意，來推測中國人的。 [MSC, trad.]
     我向来是不惮以最坏的恶意，来推测中国人的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1926, Lu Xun, “In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen”

     Wǒ xiànglái shì bù dàn yǐ zuì huài de èyì, lái tuīcè zhōngguórén de. [Pinyin]

     All along, I do not fear to think the worst of Chinese people.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 惮)

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• Go-on: だん (dan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• On: た (ta)
• Kun: はばかる (habakaru, 憚る); はばかり (habakari, 憚り)

憚 • (tan) (hangeul 탄)

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憚: Hán Nôm readings: dạn, đạn, đặn

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