坦tǎn
flat, level, smooth; candid, open. 8 strokes, radical 土, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin tǎnStrokes 8Radical 土Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 坦
Strokes 1–3 write 土, then strokes 4–8 write 旦.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 坦 · the stroke-order rules
What 坦 is made of
土 (tǔ, soil) and 旦 (dàn, dawn).
土 carries the meaning — earth — and 旦 carries the sound.
Words that use 坦
| 平坦 | flat, level 形容地面没有高低起伏 平坦大道贯通了整个乡村。A flat road ran clear through the whole village. Lesson 465, 沃野丰华 · 笃诚务实与厚泽沃野 · Steadfast Integrity & Fertile Horizons |
Characters that share the sound part 旦
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 土
All 34 of them, and what the radical means, on the 土 radical page.