覃 - Dong Chinese dictionary

tán, qín

reach to

Original meaning:

salt

Depicts a jug (𣆪) filled with salt (鹵), now written as 鹽. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

鹵 Iconic component

lǔ

salt

Modern form looks like unrelated 覀.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 鹵 than it was in ancient scripts.

𣆪 Iconic component

hòu

jug of wine

Modern form looks like unrelated 早.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𣆪 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

覃

tán

reach to, spread to; extensive; deep

覃

Qín

surname Qin

覃

Tán

surname Tan

Most common words with 覃

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	覃	surname Qin
	覃塘区	Tantang district of Guigang city 貴港市\|贵港市[Guìgǎngshì], Guangxi

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (1 verified)

簟罈譚谭潭蕈镡

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*N.rˤ[o]m	dom	tán	extend, spread
*N-r[a]mʔ	yemX	yǎn	pointed, sharp

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4889th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+8983
Shuowen	“，長味也。从，鹹省聲。《詩》曰：‘實覃實吁。’，古文覃。，篆文覃省。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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