淡

See also: 澹
淡 U+6DE1, 淡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DE1
← 淠
[U+6DE0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 淢 →
[U+6DE2]

Translingual
Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character

淡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水火火 (EFF), four-corner 39189, composition ⿰氵炎)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 630, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17660
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1032, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1660, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6DE1

Chinese

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam)

Etymology 1
trad. 淡
simp. # 淡

Pronunciation

Note:
  • taam5 - vernacular;
  • daam6 - literary.
Rime
Character 淡 淡
Reading # 2/4 4/4
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒敢切 徒濫切
Baxter damX damH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /damX/ /damH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑmX/ /dɑmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑmX/ /dʱɑmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dàn dàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 daam6 daam6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 淡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ damX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]ˁamʔ/
English insipid

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淡 淡
Reading # 2/4 3/4
No. 14300 14305
Phonetic
component		 炎 炎
Rime
group		 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 噉 憺
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːmʔ/ /*l'aːms/

Definitions

淡

  1. (of food) bland; tasteless
    啲湯好淡／啲汤好淡 [Cantonese]  ―  di1 tong1 hou2 taam5 [Jyutping]  ―  the soup is very bland
  2. (of color) light; pale
    Synonym: 淺／浅
    Antonyms: 濃／浓 (nóng), 深 (shēn)
  3. (of liquid or gas) thin; low in density
  4. indifferent; cold
  5. slack; dull
    淡季  ―  dànjì  ―  slack season; off-season
  6. meaningless; trivial
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 淡 (“bland; tasteless; not salty”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 淡
Mandarin Beijing 淡, 口輕
Taiwan 淡
Harbin 淡
Yantai (Muping) 善
Jinan 淡, 甜, 口輕
Luoyang 甜
Wanrong 甜
Xi'an 甜, 淡
Xining 甜, 淡
Ürümqi 淡
Wuhan 淡
Chengdu 淡
Guiyang 淡
Guilin 淡
Liuzhou 淡
Xuzhou 淡
Yangzhou 淡
Nanjing 淡
Hefei 淡
Singapore 淡
Cantonese Guangzhou 淡
Hong Kong 淡
Dongguan 淡
Yangjiang 淡
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 淡
Gan Nanchang 淡
Lichuan 淡
Pingxiang 淡
Hakka Meixian 淡
Yudu 淡
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 淡
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 淡
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 淡
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 淡
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 淡
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 淡
Senai (Huiyang) 淡
Jin Taiyuan 淡, 甜
Xinzhou 甜
Northern Min Jian'ou 䭕
Jian'ou (Dikou) 䭕
Zhenghe (Zhenqian) 䭕
Jianyang 䭕
Wuyishan 䭕
Pucheng (Shibei) 䭕
Eastern Min Fuzhou 䭕
Changle 䭕
Fuqing 䭕
Yongtai 䭕
Gutian 䭕
Fu'an 䭕
Ningde 䭕
Shouning 䭕
Zhouning 䭕
Fuding 䭕
Southern Min Xiamen 䭕
Quanzhou 䭕
Yongchun 䭕
Zhangzhou 䭕
Zhangzhou (Longhai) 䭕
Zhangzhou (Changtai) 䭕
Zhangpu 䭕
Zhao'an 䭕
Penang (Hokkien) 䭕
Singapore (Hokkien) 䭕
Chaozhou 䭕
Shantou 䭕
Shantou (Chenghai) 䭕
Jieyang 䭕
Haifeng 䭕
Bangkok (Teochew) 䭕
Johor Bahru (Teochew) 䭕
Leizhou 䭕
Haikou 䭕
Puxian Min Putian 䭕
Central Min Yong'an 䭕
Shaxian 䭕
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 淡
Wu Shanghai 淡
Shanghai (Chongming) 淡
Suzhou 淡
Danyang 淡
Hangzhou 淡
Ningbo 淡
Wenzhou 淡
Jinhua 淡
Xiang Changsha 淡
Loudi 淡
Shuangfeng 淡

Compounds

Etymology 2
trad. 淡
simp. # 淡

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淡
Reading # 3/4
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以冉切
Baxter yemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiamX/
Li
Rong		 /iɛmX/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 jim5
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淡
Reading # 4/4
No. 14319
Phonetic
component		 炎
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 琰
Old
Chinese		 /*lamʔ/
Notes 見宋玉賦

Definitions

淡

  1. Only used in 淡淡 (yǎnyǎn, yànyàn).
  2. ‡ appearance of water

Compounds
  • 流水淡淡

Etymology 3
trad. 淡
simp. # 淡

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淡
Reading # 1/4
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒甘切
Baxter dam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dam/
Li
Rong		 /dɑm/
Wang
Li		 /dɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 taam4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淡
Reading # 1/4
No. 14296
Phonetic
component		 炎
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 談
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːm/

Definitions

淡

  1. † Alternative form of 痰 (tán)
  2. ‡ appearance of water
    See also: 澹

Etymology 4
For pronunciation and definitions of 淡 – see 䭕 (“(Min) tasteless; insipid”).
(This character is a variant form of 䭕).

References

Japanese

Kanji
淡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. diluted
  2. pale

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 淡 (MC damX|damH). Recorded as Middle Korean 담〯 (tǎm) (Yale: tam) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 淡 (eumhun 맑을 담 (malgeul dam))

  1. Hanja form? of 담 (“clean; clear; pure”).

Compounds
Compounds

References
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

淡: Hán Nôm readings: đạm, đượm, vạm, đặm

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