tǎn
strip
Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 旦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 襢.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 袒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to take sb's side | ||
to bare one shoulder | ||
to bare | ||
to expose |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4416% of movies
3251st most common character in movies
3566th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8892 |
Shuowen | “袒，衣縫解也。从衣，旦聲。” |
Sources
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