tán
altar
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 壇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
forum (for discussion) | ||
altar | ||
platform | ||
political circles | ||
music circles |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]anʔ | dzyenX | shàn | leveled area |
*[d]ˤan | dan | tán | altar |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.3088% of movies
2545th most common character in movies
1806th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+58C7 |
Shuowen | “壇，祭場也。从土，亶聲。” |
Sources
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