| 曇 | |||
| become cloudy, overcast | |||
| Radical | 日 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 12 | Total Strokes | 16 |
| Mandarin reading | tán | Cantonese reading | taam4 |
| Japanese on reading | don tan | Japanese kun reading | kumoru kumori |
| Korean reading | tam | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 昙 | ||
| 曇 | [ tán ] dark clouds |
| 曇花 | [ tán huā ] Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) |
| 曇花一現 | [ tán huā yī xiàn ] lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once, flash in the pan (idiom), short-lived |
| ⇒ 瞿曇 | [ qú tán ] Gautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha |