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HSK
7-9

altar

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

tan2 tán

Meaning


Primary

altar

Mnemonic


[t-] Tarzan is [2] inside the [-an] pawn shop, early in the morning, right after 旦 daybreak. As the sun shines in through the window, he surrounds a 回 whirlpool that is in the corner of the shop with a rim of 土 soil and tops it with a 亠 lid, making an 壇 altar to the pawn shop gods.