Chinese Character Wiki

耽

dān

indulge in

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 冘 represents the sound. Simplified form of 躭.

Components
耳 meaning component

耳  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

冘 sound component

冘  Sound component

yín, yóu

  

to move on

Evolution

耽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

耽  

dān

indulge in; be negligent; to indulge in; to delay

耽 (躭) 

dān

variant of 耽[dān]

Most common words with 耽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

耽误

to delay

耽搁

to tarry

耽

to delay

耽溺

to indulge in

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[t-q]ˤ[ə]m

tom

dān

take pleasure


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.4003% of movies

2319th most common character in movies

2658th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+803D

Shuowen

“耽，耳大垂也。从耳，冘聲。《詩》曰：‘士之耽兮’。”


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