Chinese Character Wiki
嘆

tàn

sigh

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 𦰩 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

𦰩 sound,iconic component

𦰩  Sound Iconic component

jiān

  

to sigh

Depicts a tortured person or criminal sighing.

Evolution

嘆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嘆 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
嘆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

叹 (嘆) 

tàn

sigh, admire; to sigh; to exclaim

Most common words with 嘆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惊叹

a gasp of surprise

叹

to sigh

叹息

to sigh

感叹

to lament

叹气

to sigh

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n̥ˤar-s

thanH

tàn

sigh


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3660% of movies

2391st most common character in movies

1299th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

叹

Unicode

U+5606

Shuowen

“嘆，吞歎也。从口，歎省聲。一曰太息也。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License