摊
tān · HSK 7
to spread out
🍢 扌 hand + 难 nán; sounds like TAHN — a hand spreads goods across a stall
The 扌 hand radical does the work: spreading wares flat across a vendor's stall. The right side 难 (nán) lends the frame, and the sound TAHN keys the reading tān.
摊 — hand radical 扌 + 难 (nán)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 signals an action done by hand, here spreading or laying things out, while 难 supplies the sound (originally close to tān/nán). Together 摊 came to mean to spread open, and by extension a street stall where goods are spread out for sale.