tǎn
flat
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 旦 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 坦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
honest | ||
Pakistan | ||
Palestine | ||
tank (military vehicle) (loanword) | ||
flat |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tʰ]ˤa[n]ʔ | thanX | tǎn | level, at ease |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 31.5233% of movies
1005th most common character in movies
1017th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5766 |
Shuowen | “坦，安也。从土，旦聲。” |
Sources
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