坦诚
tǎn​chéng HSK7

frank

坦 tǎn flat

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 旦 represents the sound.

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth
旦
旦 Sound component
dàn dawn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartthanX[tʰ]ˤa[n]ʔ level, at ease

說文解字

《說文》：“坦，安也。从土，旦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

诚 chéng sincere Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 成 represents the sound. Simplified form of 誠.

Components

讠
讠 Meaning component
yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

成
成 Sound component
chéng, cheng completed

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

誠 chéng sincere Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 成 represents the sound.

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech
成
成 Sound component
chéng, cheng completed

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzyeng[d]eŋ sincere

說文解字

《說文》：“誠，信也。从言，成聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)