丹

See also: 丼 and 开

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		丹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dān (dan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹
• Min Nan (POJ): tan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: tan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dan
    • IPA ^(key): /ta̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan¹
    • Yale: dāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɑːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan
    • Tâi-lô: tan
    • IPA (Taipei): /tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (丹, reconstructed)
Character (丹), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 寒 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 都寒切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tɑn/	/tɑn/	/tɑn/	/tɑn/	/tan/	/tɑn/	/tɑn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (丹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
丹								dān								‹ tan ›								/*tˤan/								cinnabar
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
丹					1980					丹					元					1					單					/*taːn/

Synonyms

• 朱砂 (zhūshā, “cinnabar”)

Compounds

丹巴 (Dānbā) 丹麦 (Dānmài) 定坤丹 (dìngkūn dā)

灵宝护心丹 (língbǎo hùxīn dān) 牡丹 (mǔdān) 上丹田

下丹田 中丹田

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Japanese

Kanji

丹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

• 丹桂 (たんけい, tankei): golden osmanthus (osmanthus fragrans)
• 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 (dan, ran (nan))
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)

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 丹

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Vietnamese

Han character

丹 (đam, đan, đơn)

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References

• Nom Foundation