dànTán

calm

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
zhān, dàn talk too much

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdamX[l]ˤamʔcalm
Zhengzhangdaːm
daːmʔ
daːms
Unicodedhɑ̀m
dhɑ̌m

說文解字

水搖也。从水詹聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica