dāndàn

carry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

詹 sound component

  Sound component

zhān

  

talk too much

Definitions

() 

dān

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

() 

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 擔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

担心

anxious

to carry

承担

to undertake

担任

to assume office of

负担

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


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