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坍

tān

Character

What 坍 means

1. to collapse

Example sentences

• 那座老桥正面临坍塌的危险。
  Nà zuò lǎo qiáo zhèng miànlín tāntā de wēixiǎn.
  The old bridge is in danger of collapse.
• 那房子在积雪的重量下坍塌了。
  The house collapsed under the weight of snow.

Words starting with 坍

• 坍塌tān tāto collapse
• 坍方tān fāngto collapse; landslide

Words containing 坍

• 倒坍dǎo tānto collapse (of building)
• 崩坍bēng tānlandslide; collapse (of mountain side); talus slide

Characters built on 丹

These share the phonetic component 丹 (dān), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 旃zhānfelt; silken banner
• 栴zhānused in 栴檀

Characters that look like 坍

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 伪wěifalse; fake; forged
• 侍shìto serve; to attend upon
• 拂fúto flick; to brush off; (of a breeze) to brush lightly over
• 驿yìpost horse; relay station
• 拚pànto strive for; to struggle; to disregard
• 狒fèihamadryad baboon

Sounds the same

Read tān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 滩beach; shoal; rapids
• 摊to spread out; vendor's stand
• 贪to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
• 瘫paralyzed
• 怹he; she; (courteous, as opposed to 他
• 啴used in 啴啴