How do I pronounce this 「暖」 that lacks 送り仮名?


I am learning Japanese, and one of the ways I'm doing so is playing games. I
am playing "Stranger of Sword City," and I saw this exact expression, in the
game:

> 何か[暖]{L}を取るものを探して彷徨ったあなたは、やがて古びた箱を見つけ出し……

I was confused by the 「暖」 in the third character. How do you pronounce that?
Is it just 「あたた」..? Is it 「ダン」? I looked through various 辞書 but couldn't find
a reference to the naked 漢字. I eventually thought to ask Chat-GPT if there is
a name for when a 漢字 appears without ひらがな following, and it said that, yes
there is: 送り仮名抜き, and that it is often used for poetic technique.

I'm still not clear on how this is supposed to be verbalized though.

What's really going on here? And how do you pronounce it?




暖 in this context is read だん, and it means "heat" (noun).
[暖を取る](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9A%96%E3%82%92%E5%8F%96%E3%82%8B) is a
common set phrase. Since you correctly noticed it has no okurigana, you could
have also checked if 暖 has a meaning as a noun on its own. 暖 is a rare word
outside of this set phrase, though...




暖 in this context is read だん, and it means "heat" (noun).
[暖を取る](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9A%96%E3%82%92%E5%8F%96%E3%82%8B) is a
common set phrase. Since you correctly noticed it has no okurigana, you could
have also checked if 暖 has a meaning as a noun on its own. 暖 is a rare word
outside of this set phrase, though...

