Chinese Character Wiki

啖

dàn

eat

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

炎 sound component

炎  Sound component

yán

  

flame

Evolution

啖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
啖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
啖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

啖  

dàn

eat, feed; chew, bite; entice; to eat; to taste; to entice (using bait)

啖 (啗) 

dàn

variant of 啖[dàn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-rˤamʔ

damX

dàn

eat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5479th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5556

Shuowen

“啖，噍啖也。从口，炎聲。一曰噉。”


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