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袒

tǎn

Meanings

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tǎn
  1. 1.to bare
tǎn
  1. 1.old variant of 袒[tǎn]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to bare one's upper body, strip oneself naked to the waist
  2. 2.to reveal, display; to open up, confess
  3. 3.to slip off the left sleeve of the formal outerwear and expose the intermediate robe (裼衣)
  4. 4.to bare an upper arm
  5. 5.to bare the right shoulder in reverence
  6. 6.to favor, support (especially unconditionally); to show partiality for

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *daːnʔ, *rdeːns): semantic 衤 (“clothes”) + phonetic 旦 (OC *taːns). The original form is 但, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *daːnʔ, *rdeːns): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 旦 (OC *taːns). Uncertain. Schuessler (2007) gives several possibilities: * Related to 但 (OC *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, “only”) (Pulleyblank, 1991c); * Related to 丹 (OC *taːn, “cinnabar; red”), as skin colour is often associated with "red" (Lau, 1999); * Related to Tibetan སྟར (star, “to clean; to polish”). Differentiated into 𢅒 (“(of clothes) to be left wide open”).

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Components

袒衤旦

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Derived terms

偏袒偏袒扼腕偏袒搤腕兩袒两袒左右袒左袒稽顙肉袒稽颡肉袒肉袒肉袒牽羊肉袒牵羊肉袒負荊肉袒负荆肉袒面縛肉袒面缚膝袒袒免袒縛袒缚袒胸袒胸露背袒胸露臂袒膊袒臂袒衣袒裼袒裼裸裎袒護袒护

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Related words

右袒 to take sides with袒露 to expose肉袒 to make a humble apology (formal writing)袒庇 to shield袒胸 to bare the breast袒缚 to surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind袒膊 to strip to the waist露袒 exposed偏袒 to bare one shoulder袒衣 to dress in a hurry with part of the body showing裸袒 naked膝袒 to walk on one's knees and bare one's breast (a gesture of deepest apology)