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Meaning of 昙

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(Trad.: 曇)
Pinyin: tán
English Definition: dark clouds
Chinese Definition:
①(昙花)常绿灌木,没有叶子,花大,白色,花期很短,如“昙昙一现”(喻稀奇而又容易消逝的事物)。
②云彩密布,多云。
Total strokes: 8; Radical:
Ideographic: The sun hidden behind a cloud
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ ] sun; day; daytime
    • [ yún ] cloud; to say, to speak
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Example Words
昙花一现 tán huā xiàn lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once; flash in the pan (idiom); short-lived
昙花 tán huā Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
瞿昙 tán Gautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha
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Example Sentences
1
I attacked with my Meloku the Clouded Mirror.
2
西
The early, "Tan Yao five Cave" by the magnificent, with immense, pristine ambience of the Western Regions.
3
使
The rain that floods their tank makes glad our kadam forest.
4
It is as rare an event as one's coming across the flowering of the udumbara.
5
The second chapter is the summary to the vocabulary features in Dharmaksema's translations including history successive nature, colloquial nature and Buddhism style;