丹

See also 丼, and 开

Translingual

Han character

丹 (radical 3 丶+3, 4 strokes, cangjie input 月卜 (BY), four-corner 7744₀)

1. cinnabar (native HgS)
2. vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment)
3. (medicine): tablet, capsule, pill

Derived characters

• 青

References

• KangXi: page 80, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 99
• Dae Jaweon: page 162, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 44, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4E39

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Cantonese

Hanzi

丹 (jyutping daan1, Yale daan1)

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Japanese

Kanji

丹 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: あか (aka), に (ni)

Compounds

• 丹花
• 丹砂
• 丹朱
• 丹色
• 丹精, 丹誠
• 丹青
• 丹前
• 丹頂
• 丹田
• 丹毒
• 丹念
• 丹碧

Noun

丹 (hiragana に, romaji ni)

1. red
2. red earth

Related terms

• 丹塗り

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Korean

Hanja

丹
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 단, 란 (난) (revised: dan, ran (nan), McCune-Reischauer: tan, ran (nan))

• Name (hangeul): 붉을, 정성스러울 (revised: bulgeun, jeongseongsureoul, McCune-Reischauer: pulgǔn, jǒngsǒngsǔrǒul)

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 丹

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Mandarin

Hanzi

丹 (pinyin dān (dan1), Wade-Giles tan¹)

1. (medicine): tablet, pellet or pill
2. (color): red
3. (mineral): cinnabar

Compounds

牡丹 上丹田

灵宝护心丹 中丹田

定坤丹 下丹田 丹麦

Synonyms

• 朱砂 (cinnabar)

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Vietnamese

Han character

丹 (đam, đan, đơn)

References

• Nom Foundation