14 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

be rent, ripped, unravel, run, begin to open, smile

Kun'yomi
  • to come apart at the seams ②to begin to open ③to smile broadly
On'yomi
  • タン

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

タン 86.0%
ほころびる 14.0%

Character Breakdown

be rent, ripped, unravel
タン ほころ.びる (11th)
thread
いと シ (1st, N2)
short thread radical (no. 52)
ヨウ ちいさい (Kentei 1)
little, small
ショウ こ- ちい.さい (1st, N5)
feathered stick, barb radical (no. 6)
ケツ かぎ (Kentei 1)
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
ハチ や はっ (1st, N5)
determine, fix, establish
テイ ジョウ さだ.める (3rd, N3)
shaped crown, katakana u radical (no. 40)
ベン メン (Kentei 1)
dot, tick or dot radical (no. 3)
チュ (Kentei 1)
wa-shaped crown radical (no. 14)
ベキ (Kentei 1)
correct, justice, righteous
セイ ショウ ただし (1st, N4)
one, one radical (no.1)
イチ いっ ひと- (1st, N5)
stop, halt
と.まる シ どめ (2nd, N4)
divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
ボク うらな.う うらない (Kentei Pre-1)

References

Unicode hex code 7DBB
JIS X 0208 1-35-30
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 3551
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 4514
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 1745
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 1263
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2670
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 1439
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 27587
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 2018
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 6a8.13
Four corner code 2398.1