dān

small bamboo basket for holding

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

bamboo

單 sound component

  Sound component

dānshàn

  

single

Evolution

簞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
簞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
簞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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dān

small bamboo basket for holding; round basket for cooked rice

Most common words with 簞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

round basket for cooked rice

箪食壶浆

to give troops a hearty welcome

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5890th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+7C1E

Shuowen

“簞,笥也。从竹,單聲。漢律令:‘簞,小筐也。’《傳》曰:‘簞食壺漿。’”


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