僤 (dàn): (archaic) great; intense; severe

Meanings

古书用这个字表示猛烈、强盛。

Gǔ shū yòng zhège zì biǎoshì měngliè, qiángshèng.

Old texts use this character to mean fierce or intense.

history

Not used in modern Chinese, where 'intense, severe' is 猛烈 or 强烈. It appears only in classical texts; it shares the 单 phonetic with the more common 弹.

register

Classical only — found in ancient texts and etymology notes, not in modern speech.

radical

亻 rén

person

The person radical 亻 frames the word in human terms — describing force or vigor of a person or action as great and intense.

phonetic

单 dān

single; here phonetic

The right side 单 is the phonetic, its reading drifting from dān to dàn, the same element seen in 弹 and 惮.

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僤 dàn