dàn
to bear children
Original meaning:
tell false words
Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 延 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "tell false words". The meaning later shifted to "boast", "increase", and "give birth". Simplified form of 誕.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 诞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Christmas | ||
Christmas time | ||
to be born | ||
Father Christmas | ||
Christmas tree |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 20.5030% of movies
943rd most common character in movies
1997th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8BDE |
Sources
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