tán

become cloudy

The sun  hidden behind a cloud 

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

云 meaning component

  Meaning component

yún

  

clouds

Evolution

昙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
昙 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
昙 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
昙 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tán

become cloudy, overcast; dark clouds

Most common words with 昙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

昙花一现

short-lived

dark clouds

昙花

Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4272nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+6619


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