HSK 6 · Money

摊 tān “stall” in Chinese

Traditional 攤

What 摊 means

  1. stall
  2. to spread out
  3. to share (costs)
  4. vendor’s stand

How to say 摊

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale摊tān1st tone, high and level

摊 in a sentence

  1. 在炎热的天气里，猫咪没精神地摊在地上。

    Zài yánrè de tiānqì lǐ, māomī méi jīngshén de tān zài dìshang.

    In the scorching heat, the cat lay sprawled listlessly on the ground.

    Sentence #8646172 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 摊 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 摊 (tān) with each of its parts in a different colour
摊tānto spread out
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 难hard · nánSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 难 (nán) hints at the sound. Compare it with tān.

How to write 摊

摊 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

摊 (tān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 摊 (tān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 摊

More words: Money & Economy

实惠shíhuì · good value收益shōuyì · earnings数额shù'é · amount衰退shuāituì · to decline停滞tíngzhì · to stagnate通货膨胀tōnghuòpéngzhàng · inflation投机tóujī · to speculate推销tuīxiāo · to promote

FAQs

摊 (tān) means “stall” or “to spread out”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tān: tān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 摊 is written 攤. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 摊 from the suggestions. Typing tan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
摊 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.