tān
beach, bank, shoal
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 難 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*n̥ˤar (E dialect: *n̥ˤ- > MC th-) | than | tān | foreshore |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.3292% of movies
1544th most common character in movies
2062nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7058 |
Shuowen | “，水濡而乾也。从水，聲。《詩》曰：‘其乾矣。’灘，俗从隹。” |
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