暂
zàn · HSK 7
variant of 暫|暂[zan4]
⏳ 暂 = 斩 (zhǎn, cut) on top of 日 (day): a day cut short = brief, sounds like zahn
The top 斩 zhǎn lends the zàn sound while 日 (day/sun) supplies the meaning. A day that gets cut short is one that lasts only a brief moment, hence temporarily.
暂 — 斩 (zhǎn, phonetic) + 日 (sun/day, semantic)
暂 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The bottom 日 (sun/day) supplies the meaning, since the word concerns time, while the top 斩 (zhǎn, 'to cut') gives the sound. The original sense was a brief, cut-off span of time, which became today's meaning of 'temporarily' or 'for a short while.'