Chinese Character Wiki
担

dān, dàn

carry

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 旦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 擔.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

旦 sound component

旦  Sound component

dàn

  

dawn

Evolution

担 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
担 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

担 (擔) 

dān

carry, bear, undertake; to undertake; to carry; to shoulder; to take responsibility

担 (擔) 

dàn

picul (100 catties, 50 kg); two buckets full; carrying pole and its load; classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole

Most common words with 担
Freq.
Word
Meaning

担心

anxious

担

to carry

承担

to undertake

担任

to assume office of

负担

burden

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 81.9478% of movies

434th most common character in movies

720th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

擔

Unicode

U+62C5


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