dān

small bamboo basket for holding

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
dān single

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangtaːn
Unicodedɑn

說文解字

笥也。从竹單聲。漢津令:簞,小筐也。《傳》曰:“簞食壺漿。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

dān small bamboo basket for holding Simplified

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
dān single

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode