袒

襢
tǎn
#3,559 most
frequent character
old variant of 袒[tan3]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

袒 has 衤 clothing as the meaning part and 旦 dàn as a sound part with the same rhyme. It first meant splitting a seam in one’s clothes. That grew to baring or revealing, and then to favoring one side.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

袒tǎn
to bare

Homophones

坦tǎn
flat, open-hearted, level, smooth

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