dàn

pit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdomXrˤomʔ坎窞 khomX.domX hole or pit
Zhengzhangl'oːmʔ

說文解字

坎中小坎也。从穴从臽,臽亦聲。《易》曰:“入于坎窞。”一曰㫄入也。

Sources

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