Romanisation and Pronunciation
Tan is the Chinese character's Hanyu Pinyin romanisation in Mandarin Chinese. It is pronounced and romanised differently in different languages and dialects.
- In Cantonese Chinese, it is romanised as Taam4 in Jyutping and Tàahm in Cantonese Yale. It is romanised as Tam in Hong Kong and Macao.
- In Toisanese Chinese, it may be romanised as Tom, Thom, Hom, Ham or Hum.
- In Hokkien Chinese, Teochew Chinese and Hainanese Chinese, it is romanised as Thâm in POJ.
- In Vietnamese, it is romanised as Đàm.
- In Malaysia and Singapore, it is sometime romanised as Tham.
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