chǎntān

pant

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

單 sound component

  Sound component

dānshàn

  

single

Evolution

嘽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嘽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chǎn

pant; many; see 嘽嘽|啴啴[chǎn​chǎn]; see 嘽緩|啴缓[chǎn​huǎn]

() 

tān

see 嘽嘽|啴啴[tān​tān]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤar

than

tān

numerous

*tʰˤar

than

tān

exhausted

*tʰˤar

than

tān

many


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+563D

Shuowen

“嘽,喘息也。一曰喜也。从口,單聲。”


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