Chinese

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dawn; morning; day-break
dawn; morning; day-break; day
 
day; sun; date
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
 
simp. and trad.
(旦日)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (5) (38)
Final () (61) (48)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter tanH nyit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tɑnH/ /ȵiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/tɑnH/ /ȵit̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɑnH/ /ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tanH/ /ȵit̚/
Li
Rong
/tɑnH/ /ȵiĕt̚/
Wang
Li
/tɑnH/ /ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tɑnH/ /ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
daan3 jat6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tanH › ‹ nyit ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁan-s/ /*C.nik/
English dawn sun; day

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2051 10845
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*taːns/ /*njiɡ/

Noun

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旦日

  1. (Classical) daybreak; dawn
  2. (Classical) tomorrow; second day
  3. (Classical) first day of a lunar month

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Derived terms

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