袒

袒 U+8892, 袒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8892 ← 袑 [U+8891] CJK Unified Ideographs 袓 → [U+8893]

袒 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中日一 (LAM), four-corner 3621₀, composition ⿰衤旦)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1114, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34184
• Dae Jaweon: page 1579, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3082, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8892

simp. and trad.		袒
alternative forms		襢 但

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”).

袒

1. to bare; to strip oneself naked to the waist
2. to give unprincipled support; to shield

simp. and trad.		袒

袒

1. ^† Original form of 綻／绽 (zhàn, “to split at the seam”).

• “袒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• On (unclassified): たん (tan)
• Kun: かたぬぐ (katanugu)

袒 • (dan, tan) (hangeul 단, 탄, revised dan, tan, McCune–Reischauer tan, t'an, Yale tan, than)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.