漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
担: shouldering, carry
Also: raise, bear
JLPT N28 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
扌 carries the meaning · 旦 gives the sound
8 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
タンtan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 担保たんぽsecurity deposit
- 担当するたんとうするbe in charge
- 担任するたんにんするbe in charge (class)
- 負担するふたんするbear a burden
- 分担するぶんたんするapportion [v.t.]
かつぐkatsugu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 担ぐかつぐcarry on one's shoulder
になうninau · kun'yomi
- 担うになうbear to one's shoulder
- 担い手にないてperson in charge
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)手 hand, as 扌 (meaning) + 詹 (sound)
To carry by hand.
Source: Wiktionary, 擔 (rev. 92385856), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
旦
Also built on daybreak (旦)
担 takes the 旦 family's reading, タン (tan).
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 擔 · dān
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 担. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 擔.
- Simplified
- 担 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 擔 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dān most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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