tān

beach, bank, shoal

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified from .

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

难 sound component

  Sound component

nánnàn

  

difficult

Evolution

滩 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
滩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
滩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
滩 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
滩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tān

bank, a sandbar, shoal; rapids; beach; shoal; CL:[piàn]; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle

Most common words with 滩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

海滩

beach

沙滩

beach

beach

外滩

the Shanghai Bund or Waitan

滩涂

mudflat

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.3292% of movies

1544th most common character in movies

2062nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+6EE9


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