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Modern (Beijing) reading: chán
Preclassic Old Chinese: dan
Classic Old Chinese: dan
Western Han Chinese: dan
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́an
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́en
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́en
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́en
Middle Chinese: ʒ́en
English meaning : let loose, free of care
Comments: Also read *tān-s, MC tần, *dān-s, MC dần, Pek. dàn id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tɨān
Meaning: go out, cause to go out
Chinese: *tāns, *dāns, *dan let loose, free of care.
Tibetan: ãthon (p., i. thon) to come out, go out, leave, ãdon (p. bton, f. gdon, i. thon) cause to go out, expel.
Kachin: dan1 to appear.
Lushai: tōn to force or burst a way through.
Lepcha: thán to discharge, to turn out, to expel, to dismiss as person from place, to turn out as from vessel, to extract, to eliminate, to pay off as debt
Comments: Kanauri dŏn go or come out, tŏn put out; Magari don pull. Ben. 125.
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