單 (Kangxi radical 30,口+9, 12 strokes,cangjie input口口田十 (RRWJ),four-corner6650₆,composition⿱吅⿻日十 or⿱吅⿻甲一)

• 僤,嘽,墠,嬋,㠆,幝,彈,憚,撣,暺,樿,殫,潬,燀,㺗,磾,禪,繟,䐷,蟬,襌,觶,貚,䠤,軃,䡲,驒,鱓,䵐,嚲,䯬,奲,戰,鄲,鷤,囅,匰,癉,㲷,闡,簞,蕇

• 单,単

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 200, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3993
• Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 654, character 6
• Unihan data for U+55AE

Historical forms of the character單
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Transcribed ancient scripts L06468 L06472
References: Mostly from Richard Sears'Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Pictogram (象形) of a war or hunting weapon, a, Y-shaped wooden stick with two stones attached on top. The component in the middle in some oracle bones was a huge point which represented a rope around the stick; perhaps, this weapon was used as a spear and then retrieved through this rope. Otherwise, the huge point in the middle was another stone attached to the stick. The huge point was then stylized as an horizontal trait, as 口 (the stick resembled 中) and eventually as 田. The horizontal stroke at the bottom of the character was added later.

An alternative theory suggests that it represents a net to catch animals with two weights on top, but the huge point in the middle of the character in some oracle bones may not be a web or net.

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*tar(l)(“single; one; whole; only”). Cognate with但 (OC*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, “only; but”).

單

1. single;individual;solitary
2. thin;narrow;faint
3. simple;uncomplicated
4. (of clothes)unlined
5. (mathematics)short for單數／单数 (dānshù, “odd”)
6. (linguistics)short for單數／单数 (dānshù, “singular”)
7. cover;bedsheet
8. list;register;catalogue
9. only;merely;simply

   • 別的國度裏怎樣，我不知道。單知道諾威人Hamsun有一本小說叫《飢餓》，粗野的口吻是很多的，但我並不見這一類話。[MSC,trad.]
     别的国度里怎样，我不知道。单知道诺威人Hamsun有一本小说叫《饥饿》，粗野的口吻是很多的，但我并不见这一类话。[MSC,simp.]

     From:1925,魯迅,論「他媽的！」

     Bié de guódù lǐ zěnyàng, wǒ bù zhīdào.Dān zhīdào Nuòwēirén Hamsun yǒu yī běn xiǎoshuō jiào “Jī'è”, cūyě de kǒuwěn shì hěnduō de, dàn wǒ bìngbù jiàn zhè yī lèi huà.[Pinyin]

     I don't know what it's like in other countries. Ionly know that a Norwegian [named] Hamsun has [written] a novel calledHunger [in which] vulgar speech is plenty, but I have by no means seen this kind of thing [referring to他媽的 /他妈的(tāmāde)].

10. and;plus
11. bill(Classifier:張／张c)

    埋單／埋单[Cantonese]  ― maai⁴daan¹[Jyutping]  ―  to pay abill

12. (Cantonese)receipt(Classifier:張／张c)
13. (Cantonese)transaction;order(Classifier:張／张c)
14. Classifier forcases,deals andbusinesses.
15. (Cantonese, derogatory)Classifier for people.
    • 1952,梁琛, directed by梁琛,十月芥菜 [A Ready Lover]‎^[1], spoken by張永超 (鄺山笑):

      哦，嗰單西裝友呀？[Cantonese,trad.]
      哦，嗰单西装友呀？[Cantonese,simp.]

      o⁶, go²daan¹ sai¹ zong¹ jau^5-2 aa⁴?[Jyutping]

      Oh, that bloke in a suit?

16. asurname

• (ticket):票 (piào),券 (quàn);(Cantonese)飛／飞 (fēi)
• (receipt):

• (only):隻／只 (zhī)

單

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tosurround
2. used in單于 (chányú)
3. used in單閼／单阏

單

1. (～縣)Shan County (acounty ofShandong)
2. asurname,Shan,Sin, orSinn

   單立文／单立文[Cantonese]  ― sin⁶ laap⁶ man⁴[Jyutping]  ― PalSinn

   單依純／单依纯  ― Shàn Yīchún  ― Shan Yichun

單

1. alternative form of嘽 /啴
2. alternative form of繟 /𦈎

單

1. alternative form of戰 /战(zhàn)
2. used in單至／单至

單

1. (rare)asurname

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会[Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “单”, in莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page168.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “单”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page25.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “单”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page205.

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji,shinjitai form単)

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• Go-on:たん(tan)、ぜん(zen)
• Kan-on:たん(tan)、せん(sen)
• Kun:ひとえ(hitoe,單)^{←ひとへ(fitofe,單,historical)}

單 (eumhun홀단(hol dan))

1. hanja form^? of단(“single;individual;solitary”)

• 단어 (單語,daneo, “word”)
• 단순 (單純,dansun, “simple”)

單 (eumhun오랑캐이름선(orangkae ireum seon))

1. hanja form^? of선(“abarbarian”)

• 선우 (單于,seonu, “Chanyu”)

單:Hán Nôm readings:đơn,đan,thiền,truyên

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