暂zàn
temporary. 12 strokes, radical 日, first met in HSK 5.
How to write 暂
Strokes 1–8 write 斩, then strokes 9–12 write 日.
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 暂 · the stroke-order rules
What 暂 is made of
斩 (zhǎn, to chop) and 日 (rì, sun).
日 carries the meaning — sun — and 斩 carries the sound.
Words that use 暂
| 暂时 | temporarily 指持续时间不长、并非长久 因暴雨施工虽然暂时受阻并暂停。Construction was temporarily held up by the storm. Lesson 520, 重建家园 · 笃行安澜与同舟共济 · Steadfast Peace & Standing Together in Adversity |
| 暂停 | to suspend, pause 指活动中途停止一段时间 因暴雨施工虽然暂时受阻并暂停。Work was paused because of the heavy rain. Lesson 520, 重建家园 · 笃行安澜与同舟共济 · Steadfast Peace & Standing Together in Adversity |
Characters that share the sound part 斩
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 日
All 31 of them, and what the radical means, on the 日 radical page.