dàn

dawn

Depicts the sun () rising above the horizon () at dawn. In Oracle script the bottom component was the phonetic , which was later reanalyzed as the earth or a horizon.

Components
日 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

sun

一 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

one

Depicts the horizon.

Evolution

旦 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
旦 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
旦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dàn

dawn; morning; day; daybreak; dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)

Most common words with 旦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

一旦

if

元旦

New Year's Day

撒旦

Satan or Shaitan

约旦

Jordan

dawn

Component uses

Meaning component in 5 characters (2 verified)

𠦝

Sound component in 12 characters (3 verified)

Unknown component in 3 characters (2 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤan-s

tanH

dàn

dawn


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 34.5026% of movies

1147th most common character in movies

1300th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+65E6

Shuowen

“旦,明也。从日見一上。一,地也。”


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