坦 tǎn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
坦克
tǎnkè
tank
Characters in this word
Example phrases
- 坦克虽然火力强大，却在复杂巷战中受到很大限制。 Tǎnkè suīrán huǒlì qiángdà, què zài fùzá xiàngzhàn zhōng shòudào hěn dà xiànzhì. Although tanks have great firepower, they are heavily limited in complex street fighting.
- 军事博物馆里停放着一辆旧坦克，游客纷纷拍照。 Jūnshì bówùguǎn lǐ tíngfàngzhe yī liàng jiù tǎnkè, yóukè fēnfēn pāizhào. An old tank is parked in the military museum, and visitors keep taking photos of it.
- 这辆坦克模型做得很逼真，孩子看了特别喜欢。 Zhè liàng tǎnkè móxíng zuò de hěn bīzhēn, háizi kàn le tèbié xǐhuan. This tank model is very lifelike; the child especially loves it.
Related words
- 平坦 píngtǎn flat; even
- 坦白 tǎnbái frank; to confess
- 坦诚 tǎnchéng honest and open; frank
- 坦然 tǎnrán calm; composed
- 坦率 tǎnshuài frank; candid
- 坦言 tǎnyán to state frankly; frank statement
- 克 kè gram
- 千克 qiānkè kilogram
- 克服 kèfú to overcome
- 巧克力 qiǎokèlì chocolate
- 麦克风 màikèfēng microphone
- 攻克 gōngkè to overcome; to capture