倘
tǎng
if; supposing; in case
Person (亻) + sound-alike (尚) = if a person were to...
尚 lends the sound tǎng; the person radical (亻) hints at a human contingency — something a person might do *if* circumstances allow. The conditional sense was borrowed into this character for its sound rather than built from its parts.
亻A personSemantic
尚StillPhonetic
倘你有空，可以来我家坐坐。
tǎng nǐ yǒu kòng, kě yǐ lái wǒ jiā zuò zuo.
If you have free time, you can come to my place and sit a while.
倘明天下雨，我们就不去爬山了。
tǎng míng tiān xià yǔ, wǒ men jiù bù qù pá shān le.
If it rains tomorrow, we will not go hiking.