坦 tǎn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
坦率
tǎnshuài
frank; candid
Characters in this word
率 lǜ
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 玄 — deep, profound, abstruse
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 坦率地讲，董事会对这次并购仍有严重分歧。 Tǎnshuài de jiǎng, dǒngshìhuì duì zhè cì bìnggòu réng yǒu yánzhòng fēnqí. Frankly speaking, the board still has serious disagreements over this merger.
- 她对我的错误提出了坦率的意见。 Tā duì wǒ de cuòwù tíchūle tǎnshuài de yìjiàn. She gave me her frank opinion about my mistake.
- 他性格坦率，从不含糊自己的看法。 Tā xìnggé tǎnshuài, cóngbù hánhu zìjǐ de kànfǎ. His character is frank; he never fogs over his own views.
Related words
- 平坦 píngtǎn flat; even
- 坦白 tǎnbái frank; to confess
- 坦诚 tǎnchéng honest and open; frank
- 坦克 tǎnkè tank
- 坦然 tǎnrán calm; composed
- 坦言 tǎnyán to state frankly; frank statement
- 汇率 huìlǜ exchange rate
- 率先 shuàixiān to be the first
- 效率 xiàolǜ efficiency
- 率领 shuàilǐng to lead
- 概率 gàilǜ probability
- 率 lǜ suffix meaning rate, proportion