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tǎn

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tǎn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tǎn | tan3
English translation
nervous, timorous

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About tǎn

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

tǎn

Contains the radical

xīn

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

A weight on  shǎng the heart  xīn

Etymology of tǎn

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

上心 shàng xīn

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Example sentences using tǎn

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于是 yúshì 他们 tā men 怀着忐忑不安 tǎn tè bù ān de 心情 xīnqíng , 穿过 chuān guò 山楂 shān zhā cóng , zǒu xià 山坡 shān pō .

With beating hearts, they descended through the hawthorns.

伯莎 Bó shā 一直 yīzhí 忐忑不安 tǎn tè bù ān de 等待 děngdài zhāo zhè 无可避免 de 难熬 nán aó de 时刻 shíkè .

Bertha had been awaiting, with great discomfort , the necessary ordeal.

Words with tǎn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
忐忑不安 tǎn tè bù ān restless忐忑不安 tǎn tè bù ān
忐忑 tǎn tè nervous忐忑 tǎn tè
tǎn nervous tǎn

tǎn Decomposition & Compounds

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