倝
gàn

sunrise

Phonosemantic compound. 旦 represents the meaning and 㫃 represents the sound.

Components

旦
旦 Meaning component
dàn dawn
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 旦 than it was in ancient scripts.
㫃
㫃 Sound component
yǎn flags flying
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 㫃 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (8)

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Remnant (5)

看韩戟韓乹

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkanH[k]ˤar-s sunrise (Shuowen)

說文解字

《說文》：“倝，日始出，光倝倝也。從旦，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)