dān, dàn
carry
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 詹 represents the sound.
Components
Definitions
Most common words with 擔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
anxious | ||
to carry | ||
to undertake | ||
to assume office of | ||
burden |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə-tˤam | tam | dān | carry on the shoulder |
*tˤam | tam | dàn | burden |
*mə-tˤam-s | tamH | dàn | 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 | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+64D4 |
Sources
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