担dān
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担
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Shuowen
担 (dān). The image of a hand carrying a load on the shoulder, originally depicted in oracle bone script. The hand radical 扌 and the phonetic 旦 combine to form a phoneto-semantic compound, preserving the original sense of bearing or carrying and later extending to worry.
Pinyin
dān· HSK 2