啗
dàn

eat

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdamXm-rˤamʔeat
damHm-rˤamʔ-seat, swallow
Zhengzhangl'aːmʔ
l'aːms

說文解字

食也。从口臽聲。讀與含同。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)