坛
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altar; platform; rostrum; (bound form) (sporting, literary etc) circles; world
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How 坛 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 云 (phonetic, yún)
How to remember it
altar · Heisig RSH #1693
土 soil + rising cloud
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 云
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 云 (yún) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 云 sound component | yún | cloud; to say, to speak |
| 运 | yùn | to run; ship, transport; fortune, luck |
| 魂 | hún | soul, spirit |
| 芸 | yún | common rue; diverse, varied |
| 纭 | yún | confused; numerous |
| 耘 | yún | to weed |
| 酝 | yùn | liquor, spirits, wine; to ferment |
Words containing 坛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 世界经济论坛 | Shì jiè Jīng jì Lùn tán | World Economic Forum |
| 金坛区 | Jīn tán Qū | Jintan, a district of Changzhou City 常州市[Chang2 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
| 国际先驱论坛报 | Guó jì Xiān qū Lùn tán Bào | International Herald Tribune |
| 天坛座 | Tiān tán zuò | Ara (constellation) |
| 论坛报 | Lùn tán Bào | Tribune (in newspaper names) |
| 达沃斯论坛 | Dá wò sī lùn tán | Davos world economic forum (WEF) |
| 坛子 | tán zi | jug (earthenware with a big belly and a small opening) |
| 地坛 | Dì tán | Temple of Earth (in Beijing) |
| 天坛 | Tiān tán | Temple of Heaven (in Beijing) |
| 金坛 | Jīn tán | see 金壇區|金坛区[Jin1 tan2 Qu1] |
| 花坛 | huā tán | decorative mass planting of flowers and shrubs, often bounded by a low masonry border, and… |
| 体坛 | tǐ tán | sporting circles; the world of sport |
| 文坛 | wén tán | literary circles |
| 书坛 | shū tán | the calligraphic community |
| 乐坛 | yuè tán | music circles; music world |
| 政坛 | zhèng tán | political circles |
| 骨坛 | gǔ tán | urn |
| 武坛 | wǔ tán | martial arts circles |
| 论坛 | lùn tán | forum (for discussion) |
| 足坛 | zú tán | soccer circles; soccer world |