單
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Translingual
| Traditional | 單 |
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| Shinjitai | 単 |
| Simplified | 单 |
Han character
單 (radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口口田十 (RRWJ), four-corner 66506, composition ⿱吅⿻日十 or ⿱吅⿻甲一)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 200, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3993
- Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 654, character 6
- Unihan data for U+55AE
Chinese
| trad. | 單 | |
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| simp. | 单 | |
| variant forms | 単 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 單 | |||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 嚲 | *taːlʔ |
| 癉 | *taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn |
| 奲 | *taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ |
| 驒 | *daːl, *daːn, *teːn |
| 鼉 | *daːl |
| 磾 | *teːl |
| 鷤 | *deːl, *deːls, *daːn |
| 觶 | *tjal, *tjals |
| 單 | *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans |
| 鄲 | *taːn |
| 殫 | *taːn |
| 簞 | *taːn |
| 匰 | *taːn |
| 襌 | *taːn |
| 啴 | |
| 彈 | *daːn, *daːns |
| 貚 | *daːn, *deːn |
| 撣 | *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ |
| 潬 | *daːnʔ |
| 僤 | *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan |
| 憚 | *daːns |
| 樿 | *tjanʔ |
| 燀 | *tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ |
| 戰 | *tjans |
| 闡 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 繟 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 幝 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 嘽 | *tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ |
| 灛 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 蟬 | *djan |
| 禪 | *djan, *djans |
| 嬋 | *djan |
| 墠 | *djanʔ |
| 鱓 | *djanʔ |
| 蕇 | *teːnʔ |
Pictogram (象形) – a net to catch animals. The two boxes at the top are weights, the middle section is the net, the bottom is the rope.
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *day ~ dan ~ tay ~ tan (“single; one; whole; only”). Cognate with 但 (OC *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, “only; but”).
Pronunciation
Definitions
單
- single; individual; solitary
- thin; narrow; faint
- simple; uncomplicated
- (of clothes) unlined
- (mathematics) Short for 單數／单数 (dānshù, “odd”).
- (linguistics) Short for 單數／单数 (dānshù, “singular”).
- cover; bed sheet
- list; register; catalogue
- only; merely; simply
- 別的國度裏怎樣，我不知道。單知道諾威人Hamsun有一本小說叫《飢餓》，粗野的口吻是很多的，但我並不見這一類話。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1925, 魯迅, 論「他媽的！」
- Bié de guódù lǐ zěnyàng, wǒ bù zhīdào. Dān zhīdào Nuòwēirén Hamsun yǒu yī běn xiǎoshuō jiào “Jī'è”, cūyě de kǒuwěn shì hěnduō de, dàn wǒ bìngbù jiàn zhè yī lèi huà. [Pinyin]
- I don't know what it's like in other countries. I only know that a Norwegian [named] Hamsun has [written] a novel called Hunger [in which] vulgar speech is plenty, but I have by no means seen this kind of thing [referring to 他媽的].
别的国度里怎样，我不知道。单知道诺威人Hamsun有一本小说叫《饥饿》，粗野的口吻是很多的，但我并不见这一类话。 [MSC, simp.]
- and; plus
- bill (Classifier: 張／张 c)
- Classifier for cases, deals and businesses.
- A surname.
See also
- (only): 只 (zhǐ)
Compounds
Derived terms from 單
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Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Etymology 5
| For pronunciation and definitions of 單 – see 亶 (“sincere, truthful ; etc.”). (This character, 單, is a variant form of 亶.) |
Etymology 6
| For pronunciation and definitions of 單 – see 憚 (“to fear”). (This character, 單, is a variant form of 憚.) |
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Japanese
| 単 | |
| 單 |
Kanji
單
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 単)
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