Tan

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English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 譚／谭 (Tán).

Proper noun

Tan

  1. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.

Etymology 2

From Hokkien 陳／陈 (Tân). Doublet of Chen.

Proper noun

Tan

  1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 丹 (Dān), reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Tan¹.

Proper noun

Tan

  1. Alternative form of Dan
    • 1856, Thomas Taylor Meadows, “Military History of the Tae pings, After the Occupation of Nanking, Up to the Present Time”, in The Chinese and their Rebellions‎, London: Smith, Elder & Co., →OCLC, page 175:
      The Tae ping camps commanded the Tan river which, flowing eastward, becomes further on the Wei, under which name it joins the Grand Canal at Lin tsing, on the northern side of the highest level of the Canal waters.
    • 1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China‎, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 214:
      As regards other possible railways in Shensi and Kansu not yet definitely projected, the most attractive is a line from the neighbourhood of Chingtzu Kuan in south-western Honan up the Tan River valley and across the Ch'inling Shan to Hsian.
    • 1923, Frits Holm, My Nestorian Adventure in China‎, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 191:
      I was much disappointed at learning that the water was too low for navigation on the Tan river as yet, and that we would have to travel four days over the mountains to Kingtzekuan, on the border of Honan, before we should find the river navigable.
    • 1974, Edward Friedman, Backward Toward Revolution: the Chinese Revolutionary Party‎, University of California Press, published 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 152–153:
      In mid-March 1914 the White Wolf band gathered with a number of other rural bands at Ching-tzu-kuan, a cluster of houses at a pass on the Tan river at the Honan-Shensi provincial borders.[...]
      They continued through the Tsinling mountains above the Tan river valley on a high trad under yet higher caves where villagers traditionally hide.
Translations
Dan — see Dan

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Tan

  1. A surname from Vietnamese.

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien 陳／陈 (Tân). Doublet of Chan and Chen.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tan (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈ᜔)

  1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tan is the 37th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 123,290 individuals.

Turkish

Proper noun

Tan

  1. a female given name
  2. a male given name which means "dawn, daybreak"

See also

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