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箪

簞
dān
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a round bamboo basket for holding cooked rice

Examples

古人用箪装饭。
Gǔrén yòng dān zhuāng fàn.
The ancients carried cooked rice in a bamboo basket.
颜回一箪食，一瓢饮，安贫乐道。
Yánhuí yì dān shí, yì piáo yǐn, ān pín lèdào.
Yan Hui lived contentedly with a single basket of rice and one ladle of water.

Tips

culture
Famous from the phrase 箪食壶浆, originally describing common people welcoming an army with baskets of food and jugs of drink. It also appears in the Analects praise of Confucius's disciple Yan Hui living happily in poverty.

Components

radical
⺮ zhú
bamboo
The bamboo-cap radical, the top form of 竹. It tells you 箪 is a bamboo article, here a woven food basket.
phonetic
单 dān
single; alone
Supplies the sound exactly: standalone 单 is also dān. It gives only the pronunciation and no meaning to this word.

Stroke Order

箪 dān