儋 (dān): Danzhou (city in Hainan)

Meanings

儋州在海南岛的西部。

Dān Hǎinán

Danzhou is a city in the western part of Hainan Island.

苏轼曾被流放到海南儋州。

Sū Shì liúfàng dào Hǎinán dān

Su Shi was once banished to Danzhou in Hainan.

culture

Today 儋 is best known as 儋州 in Hainan, where the poet 苏轼 spent his last exile. Anciently it was an old form of 担 meaning to shoulder a load.

radical

亻 rén

person

亻 is the person radical 人 in left-side form. The old sense was a person carrying a load on the shoulder, hence the human radical.

phonetic

詹 zhān

verbose; surname

詹 supplies the sound, shifted from zhān to dān. It is the phonetic element here, the same one in 檐 and 瞻.

儋 dān