坦
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flat; open-hearted; level; smooth
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 土 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 坦
- Common rank
- #1,010
- Unicode
- U+5766
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 坦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斯坦福大学 | Stanford University | |
| 吉尔吉斯斯坦 | Kyrgyzstan | |
| 巴基斯坦 | Pakistan | |
| 巴勒斯坦民族权力机构 | Palestinian National Authority | |
| 布里坦尼 | Brittany (France); Bretagne | |
| 维特根斯坦 | Wittgenstein (name); Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-British philosopher | |
| 伊斯坦布尔 | Istanbul, Turkey | |
| 塔吉克斯坦 | Tajikistan | |
| 斯坦利 | Stanley (name) | |
| 解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线 | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | |
| 吉尔吉斯坦 | Kyrgyzstan | |
| 哈萨克斯坦 | Kazakhstan | |
| 库尔德斯坦 | Kurdistan | |
| 坦克车 | tank (armored vehicle) | |
| 图坦卡门 | Tutankhamen, king of ancient Egypt 1333-1323 BC | |
| 印度斯坦 | Hindustan | |
| 反坦克 | anti-tank | |
| 巴勒斯坦解放组织 | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | |
| 泰坦尼克号 | RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 | |
| 斯坦贝克 | John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 旦 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旦 sound part | dawn; morning; day | |
| 量 | measure, volume; amount, quantity | |
| 胆 | gallbladder; gall, guts, courage | |
| 担 | to bear, to carry; burden, responsibility | |
| 但 | only; but, however, yet, still | |
| 袒 | to strip, to bare | |
| 疸 | jaundice; stomach disorder | |
| 靼 | the Tartars | |
| 怛 | grieving; worried | |
| 亶 | real, sincere, true; truth | |
| 妲 | concubine of the last Shang emperor | |
| 笪 | a coarse mat of rushes or bamboo | |
| 钽 | tantalum |