罎 tán an earthenware jar Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents No origin information available for this character yet. Sources Readings & variants Unicode 坛 tán altar Simplified Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 云 represents the sound. Simplified form of 壇. Components 土 土 Meaning component tǔ earth 云 云 Sound component yún clouds Sources Readings & variants Unicode