Zi:单
单(F單) [dān] alone; single; sheet [chán] 单于 [shàn] (surname) [dǎn] [chǎn] [dàn] [zhàn] [tán] cf. 單
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The simple-form character 单 (8 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 單 (12 strokes), replacing the upper full-form component 吅 (6 strokes) with丷 (2 strokes).
Note: In 单/單 the simplification of 丷/吅 is that of 兽/嘼/獸; cf. 兽.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 单/單 dān ‘great (beast)’ combines the shape (⿱田十), short for 黾/黽 měng ‘frog/amphibian’ (cf. 兽/嘼), with 吅 xuān ‘cry/roar’ (phonosemantic); [lacuna].
Note: 單 is an old wr. of 鼍/鼉(𪓸) tuó ‘alligator’, and of 战/戰 zhàn ‘battle/war’, phonosemantic in both; SW records that alligator skin was used to make (war) drums.
Compare: 𬶛/鱓 tuó ‘alligator’, formerly wr. 鼍/鼉(𪓸); 𬶛/鱓 shàn ‘Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)’.
Compare: 兽/獸(嘼) shòu ‘beast’, in which 吅 represents the curved horns, not 吅 xuān ‘cry/roar’; but in the Seal the central part of 兽/嘼 is the same as 单/單.
“[單] Single, alone; only; odd (in number); single sheet, a list, a bill, a slip” —Karlgren(AD).
Note: Lindqvist proposed that 单 may have represented hunting stones tied with a rope (cf. bolas/boleadoras); cf. 弹 dàn as in 子弹 zǐdàn ‘bullet’.
Compare: 弹/彈 tán/dàn ‘shoot/projectile’, formerly wr. 𢎟.
►references: Wieger:72e,104a; Karlgren:AD968; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.246.3; Lindqvist:113; Mathews:6030; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:090.1.05; Wáng(1993):64; EDOC:0
►components: 丷田十
►Cantonese: daan\
<cdl char='单' uni='5355' radical='Z2 K12'>
<comp char='丷' uni='4E37' points='32,0 96,24' />
<comp char='' uni='E0FE' points='0,28 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='丷' uni='4E37' points='32,16 96,64' radical='D1 K12 Q'>
<stroke type='d' points='0,0 34,116' />
<stroke type='p' points='128,6 84,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='' uni='E0FE' points='0,4 128,128'>
<comp char='日' uni='65E5' points='22,0 106,54' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,81 128,81' />
<stroke type='s' points='64,0 64,128' head='cut' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='日' uni='65E5' points='24,8 104,120'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,60 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,4 128,124' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,0 128,0' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF79](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+5355
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