郯
tán

name of a small ancient principality which was situated in what is now part of Shantung and Kiangsu

Components

炎
炎 Sound component
yán flame
阝
阝 Meaning component
fù hill, place

city

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'aːm

說文解字

東海縣。帝少昊之後所封。从邑炎聲。

Sources

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