dàn

eat

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
yán flame

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdamXm-rˤamʔeat
Zhengzhangl'aːmʔ
l'aːms
Unicodedhɑ̌m

說文解字

噍啖也。从口炎聲。一曰噉。

Sources

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