tān

spread out

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

難 sound component

  Sound component

nánnàn

  

difficult

Evolution

攤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
攤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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tān

spread out, open; apportion; to spread out; vendor's stand

Most common words with 攤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to spread out

烂摊子

terrible mess

摊位

vendor's booth

摊牌

to lay one's cards on the table

分摊

to apportion

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.7458% of movies

2178th most common character in movies

2154th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+6524

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“攤,開也。从手,難聲。”


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