歎 — Chinese character
歎
tàn
to sigh; to admire
- Pinyin
- tàn
- Radical
- 76 ⽋ (Lack)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 堇 欠
- Formation
- pictophonetic — yawn; meaning component 欠; sound component 堇
- Japanese
- 歎 as a kanji
歎 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 14
- Analects 9.10
- Analects 11.25
- Mencius 7A.36
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.