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Keyword
sandalwood
  • hardwood
  • surname
Frequency
#3595
Strokes
17
Readings
tán
Mnemonic
木 (tree) gives the meaning and 亶 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
檀tán
sandalwood; hardwood; purple-red
紫檀zǐtán
red sandalwood
檀香山Tánxiāngshān
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii; also transliterated as 火奴鲁鲁
旃檀zhāntán
sandalwood (loanword from Sanskrit "candana")
青檀qīngtán
blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣纸