Ideographic: The sun 日 hidden behind a cloud 云Radical:

meaning for tán:

  • - dark cloudslit. the night-blooming cactus shows once
  • - flash in the pan (idiom)
  • - short-livedDutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)Gautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha