gàn
sunrise
Phonosemantic compound. 旦 represents the meaning and 㫃 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤar-s | kanH | gàn | sunrise (Shuowen) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+501D |
Shuowen | “倝,日始出,光倝倝也。從旦,聲。” |
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