tān
spread out
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 難 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 攤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to spread out | ||
terrible mess | ||
vendor's booth | ||
to lay one's cards on the table | ||
to apportion |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.7458% of movies
2178th most common character in movies
2154th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6524 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“攤,開也。从手,難聲。” |
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