歎 tàn

1. tàn verb to sigh
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Variant of 叹, traditional 嘆 (CC-CEDICT '歎'; Guoyu '歎' v 3; Kroll 2015 '歎' 1, p. 443; Unihan '歎'; XHZD '叹', p. 729)
2. tàn verb to praise
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 赞美 (Guoyu '歎' v 2; Kroll 2015 '歎' 1b, p. 443)
3. tàn verb to lament
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '歎' 1a, p. 443)
4. tàn verb to chant; to recite
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 咏歎 (Guoyu '歎' v 1; Kroll 2015 '歎' 3, p. 443)
5. tàn noun a chant
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a genre of poetry (Guoyu '歎' n)

Contained in

• 哀歎 to sigh with grief
• 歎惋 to sigh
• 咏歎(詠歎) to chant
• 惊歎(驚歎) to exclaim in surprise
• 歎气(歎氣) to sigh
• 歎息 to sigh ; to praise
• 唉声歎气(唉聲歎氣) let out a sad sigh
• 唉歎 sigh

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 21
• 卷九十四 列傳第六十四 隱逸 Volume 94 Biographies 64: Hermits and Recluses Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 21
• 卷四十九 列傳第十九 阮籍 嵇康 向秀 劉伶 謝鯤 胡毋輔之 畢卓 王尼 羊曼 光逸 Volume 49 Biographies 19: Ruan Ji; Ji Kang; Xiang Xiu; Liu Ling; Xie Kun; Huwu Fuzhi; Bi Zhuo; Wang Ni; Yang Man; Guang Yi Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 20
• 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 19
• 卷二十一 Scroll 21 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 17
• 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 15
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 14
• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 14
• 卷九十五 列傳第六十五 藝術 Volume 95 Biographies 65: Arts Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 13
• 卷二十八 Scroll 28 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12

Collocations

• 歎曰 (歎曰) 歎曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 序 Preface — count: 135
• 嗟歎 (嗟歎) 故嗟歎之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧關雎 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Guan Ju — count: 22
• 歎美 (歎美) 歎美之聲 — Xunzi 荀子, 仲尼篇第七 Chapter 7: Confucius — count: 6
• 仰天歎 (仰天歎) 晏子仰天歎曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
• 仲尼歎 (仲尼歎) 仲尼歎曰 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 難一第三十六 Chapter 36: Difficulties I — count: 5
• 歎辞 (歎辭) 歎辭也 — Xunzi 荀子, 儒效篇第八 Chapter 8: The Achievements of the Confucians — count: 4
• 三歎 (三歎) 比置三歎 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 咸歎 (鹹歎) 公卿咸歎公德 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十九上 王莽傳 Volume 99a: Wang Mang 1 — count: 4
• 孔子歎 (孔子歎) 魯以偶人葬而孔子歎 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十　繆稱訓 Chapter 10: Solemn Precepts — count: 3
• 歎而言 (歎而言) 歎而言曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3