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啗

dàn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) to eat; to feed
  2. 2 (archaic) to entice with bait

Examples

在古文里，这个字表示吃，跟现代的啖一样。
Zài gǔwén lǐ, zhège zì biǎoshì chī, gēn xiàndài de dàn yīyàng.
In ancient texts this character means to eat, the same as the modern character 啖.

Tips

history
啗 is an old variant and is not used independently in modern Chinese. Its standard descendant is 啖 'to eat / to feed / to lure with bait', which carries all of these senses today.
register
Archaic and literary only — encountered in classical texts and etymology notes, never in everyday speech, where 吃 or 啖 is used instead.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
The mouth radical 口 on the left signals an eating action, fitting the meaning 'to eat / to feed'.
phonetic
臽 xiàn
pitfall; to fall in
臽 (a pit) gives the sound, drifted to dàn here. The same phonetic appears in 陷 (to sink / trap) and 焰 (flame).

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Stroke Order

啗 dàn