耽 — Chinese character
耽
dān
to indulge; to delay
- Pinyin
- dān
- Radical
- 128 ⽿ (Ear)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 耳 冘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ear; meaning component 耳; sound component 冘
- Japanese
- 耽 as a kanji
Common words with 耽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 耽误 (耽誤) | dān wu | to delay; to hold up |
| 耽搁 (耽擱) | dān ge | to delay; to hold up; to tarry; to stay |
| 耽美 | dān měi | (slang) boys' love, aka BL (genre of homoerotic online literature) |
| 耽心 | dān xīn | variant of 担心 (dān xīn) |
| 耽溺 | dān nì | to indulge in; to wallow in |
| 耽忧 (耽憂) | dān yōu | variant of 担忧 (dān yōu) |
English words written with 耽
耽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Doctrine of the Mean 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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