tán
become cloudy
The sun 日 hidden behind a cloud 雲
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 曇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
short-lived | ||
dark clouds | ||
Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4272nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+66C7 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“曇，雲布也。从日、雲會意。” |
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