郯

Tán
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 surname Tan
  2. 2 Tan, an ancient state and city

Examples

HSK 6
Zhèlǐ xiàtiān de tiānqì fēicháng yánrè.
The weather is scorching hot in summer here.

Tips

history
Not an ordinary word in modern Chinese; it names a small Spring-and-Autumn state in present-day Shandong and lives on as a surname and in 郯城. It is phonetic 炎 plus the city radical 阝.
register
A surname and place name; the state sense is classical and historical only.

Components

radical
阝 yì
city; settlement
The right-side city radical, a squeezed 邑. On the right it always marks a town or state, the same family as 郑 and 邹.
phonetic
炎 yán
flame
Fills the left and carries the sound, drifted to tán. The same phonetic gives the reading of 谈 and 淡; here it lends pronunciation only.

Stroke Order

郯 Tán