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tān

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tān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tān | tan1
English translation
rapids; sandbar, shoal

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About tān

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Number of strokes

22

Traditional form

tān

Contains the radical

shuǐ

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

Difficult  nán waters shuǐ to navigate;  nán also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of tān

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

氵難

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Words with tān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
海滩 hǎi tān beach海灘
沙滩 shātān beach沙灘
tān beach tān
外滩 Wài tān the Shanghai Bund or Waitan外灘
滩涂 tān tú mudflat灘塗
抢滩 qiǎng tān to seize a beachhead搶灘
河滩 hé tān river bank河灘
浅滩 qiǎn tān shallows淺灘
戈壁滩 Gē bì tān Gobi desert戈壁灘
河漫滩 hé màn tān floodplain河漫灘
冷水滩区 Lěng shuǐ tān qū Lengshuitan district of Yongzhou city 永州市 Yǒng zhōu shì [Yǒng​zhōu​shì], Hunan冷水灘區
盐滩 yán tān salt flats鹽灘
冷水滩 Lěng shuǐ tān Lengshuitan district of Yongzhou city 永州市 Yǒng zhōu shì [Yǒng​zhōu​shì], Hunan冷水灘
沿滩区 Yán tān qū Yantan district of Zigong city 自貢市|自贡市 Zì gòng shì [Zì​gòng​shì], Sichuan沿灘區
白碱滩区 Bái jiǎn tān qū Baijiantan district (Uighur: Jerenbulaq Rayoni) of Qaramay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市 Kè lā mǎ yī shì [Kè​lā​mǎ​yī​shì], Xinjiang白鹼灘區

tān Decomposition & Compounds

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