tán

phlegm

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

炎 sound component

  Sound component

yán

  

flame

Evolution

痰 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
痰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

tán

phlegm, mucus, spittle; phlegm; spittle

Most common words with 痰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

phlegm

化痰

to transform phlegm (TCM)

痰盂

spittoon

咳痰

to cough up phlegm

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.0572% of movies

3308th most common character in movies

3044th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+75F0


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