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See also: 澹

Stroke order
11 strokes

淡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水火火 (EFF), four-corner 39189, composition ⿰氵炎)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 630, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17660
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1660, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6DE1
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam).

trad. 淡
simp. # 淡

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Note:

  • taam5 - vernacular;
  • daam6 - literary.

Note:

  • tāⁿ - vernacular;
  • tām - literary.

Note:

  • dan6 - vernacular;
  • dam6 - literary.

Note:

  • dan5 - vernacular;
  • dan4 - literary.
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 淡
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		dàn
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ damX ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*[l]ˁamʔ/
    English insipid

    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 淡 淡
    Reading # 2/4 3/4
    No. 14300 14305
    Phonetic
    component         		炎 炎
    Rime
    group         		談 談
    Rime
    subdivision         		1 1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		噉 憺
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/

    淡

    1. (of food) bland; tasteless
      啲湯好淡／啲汤好淡 [Cantonese]  ―  di1 tong1 hou2 taam5 [Jyutping]  ―  the soup is very bland
    2. (of color) light; pale
      Synonym: 淺 / 浅
      Antonyms: 濃 / 浓 (nóng), 深 (shēn)
    3. (of liquid or gas) thin; low in density
    4. indifferent; cold
    5. slack; dull
      淡季  ―  dànjì  ―  slack season; off-season
    6. meaningless; trivial

    Dialectal synonyms of 淡 (“bland; tasteless; not salty”) [map]

    trad. 淡
    simp. # 淡

    淡

    1. Only used in 淡淡 (yǎnyǎn, yànyàn).
    2. (historical dictionaries only) appearance of water
    trad. 淡
    simp. # 淡

    淡

    1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 痰 (tán)
    2. (historical dictionaries only) appearance of water
      See also: 澹

    For pronunciation and definitions of 淡 – see 䭕 (“(Min) tasteless; insipid”).
    (This character is a variant form of 䭕).

    淡

    (Jōyō kanji)

    1. diluted
    2. pale

    From Middle Chinese 淡 (MC damX|damH). Recorded as Middle Korean 담〯 (tǎm) (Yale: tam) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

    Wikisource

    淡 (eumhun 맑을 담 (malgeul dam))

    1. hanja form? of 담 (“clean; clear; pure”)
    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

    淡: Hán Nôm readings: đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm

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