坦

flat; open-hearted; level; smooth

8 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,010 U+5766

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 (semantic, “earth”) + 旦 (phonetic, dàn)

components: 土旦

level · Heisig RSH #1539

土 soil + 旦 daybreak

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 旦

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 旦 (dàn) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
旦 sound component	dàn	dawn; morning; day
量	liáng	measure, volume; amount, quantity
胆	dǎn	gallbladder; gall, guts, courage
担	dān	to bear, to carry; burden, responsibility
但	dàn	only; but, however, yet, still
袒	tǎn	to strip, to bare
疸	dǎn	jaundice; stomach disorder
靼	dá	the Tartars
怛	dá	grieving; worried
亶	dǎn	real, sincere, true; truth
妲	dá	concubine of the last Shang emperor
笪	dá	a coarse mat of rushes or bamboo
钽	tǎn	tantalum

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
斯坦福大学	Sī tǎn fú Dà xué	Stanford University
吉尔吉斯斯坦	Jí ěr jí sī sī tǎn	Kyrgyzstan
巴基斯坦	Bā jī sī tǎn	Pakistan
巴勒斯坦民族权力机构	Bā lè sī tǎn Mín zú Quán lì Jī gòu	Palestinian National Authority
布里坦尼	Bù lǐ tǎn ní	Brittany (France); Bretagne
维特根斯坦	Wéi tè gēn sī tǎn	Wittgenstein (name); Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-British philosopher
伊斯坦布尔	Yī sī tǎn bù ěr	Istanbul, Turkey
塔吉克斯坦	Tǎ jí kè sī tǎn	Tajikistan
斯坦利	Sī tǎn lì	Stanley (name)
解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线	Jiě fàng Bā lè sī tǎn Rén mín Zhèn xiàn	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
吉尔吉斯坦	Jí ěr jí sī tǎn	Kyrgyzstan
哈萨克斯坦	Hā sà kè sī tǎn	Kazakhstan
库尔德斯坦	Kù ěr dé sī tǎn	Kurdistan
坦克车	tǎn kè chē	tank (armored vehicle)
图坦卡门	Tú tǎn kǎ mén	Tutankhamen, king of ancient Egypt 1333-1323 BC
印度斯坦	Yìn dù sī tǎn	Hindustan
反坦克	fǎn tǎn kè	anti-tank
巴勒斯坦解放组织	Bā lè sī tǎn Jiě fàng Zǔ zhī	Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
泰坦尼克号	Tài tǎn ní kè Hào	RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
斯坦贝克	Sī tǎn bèi kè	John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist