tán

altar

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

亶 sound component

  Sound component

dǎn

  

sincere

Evolution

壇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
壇 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
壇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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tán

altar; arena, examination hall; platform; rostrum

Most common words with 壇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

论坛

forum (for discussion)

祭坛

altar

platform

政坛

political circles

乐坛

music circles

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]anʔ

dzyenX

shàn

leveled area

*[d]ˤan

dan

tán

altar


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.3088% of movies

2545th most common character in movies

1806th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+58C7

Shuowen

“壇,祭場也。从土,亶聲。”


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