tán
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 surname Tan
  2. 2 (classical) Tan, an ancient state and city

Examples

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 plus the city radical .
register
A surname and place name; the state sense is classical and historical only.

Components

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

Stroke Order

tán