(dān) - to carry, to bear (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
dānTraditional: 担
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Translation
to carry, to bear (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the hand radical 扌on the left gives the sense of carrying or shouldering, while 旦 (dan) on the right supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 扌(hand radical) + 旦 (dan, phonetic)
Stroke order
担
Examples
，。
Don't worry, it's fine.
。
My mother is very worried about me.
。
I am worried he will be late.
。
He has shouldered the family responsibility.
。
I will take responsibility for this matter.
担 (dān) means to carry or shoulder, but in everyday speech it most often appears in 担心 (dānxīn), to worry.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 担.
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