袒 — Chinese character
袒
tǎn
to strip, to bare
- Pinyin
- tǎn
- Radical
- 145 ⾐ (Clothes)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 衤 旦
- Formation
- pictophonetic — clothes; meaning component 衤; sound component 旦
- Japanese
- 袒 as a kanji
Common words with 袒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 偏袒 | piān tǎn | to bare one shoulder; (fig.) to side with |
| 袒护 (袒護) | tǎn hù | to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc; to take sb's side |
| 袒露 | tǎn lù | to expose; to bare |
| 袒胸 | tǎn xiōng | to bare the breast |
| 左袒 | zuǒ tǎn | to take sides with; to be partial to |
| 右袒 | yòu tǎn | to take sides with; to be partial to |
| 左右袒 | zuǒ yòu tǎn | to take sides with; to be partial to |
| 肉袒 | ròu tǎn | to make a humble apology (formal writing) |
| 膝袒 | xī tǎn | to walk on one's knees and bare one's breast (a gesture of deepest apology) |
| 袒免 | tǎn miǎn | to bare one's left arm and take off one's cap as an expression of sorrow |
| 袒庇 | tǎn bì | to shield; to harbor |
| 袒缚 (袒縛) | tǎn fù | to surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind |
袒 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2
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.