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dàn

lotus

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

plant

臽 Sound component

xiàn a pit

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	domX	rˤomʔ	菡萏 homX.domX lotus flower
Zhengzhang		l'oːmʔ
Unicode	dhǒm

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang