丹砂

Chinese

		red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar	sand; gravel; granule
simp. and trad. (丹砂)		丹	砂
alternative forms		丹沙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dānshā

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ ㄕㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ saa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dānshā
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ ㄕㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dansha
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹-sha¹
    • Yale: dān-shā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dansha
    • Palladius: даньша (danʹša)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ ʂä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan¹ saa¹
    • Yale: dāan sā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ saa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ sa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ saː⁵⁵/

Noun

丹砂

1. cinnabar

Synonyms

• 丹 (dān) (literary, or in compounds)
• 丹干
• 朱砂 (zhūshā)
• 汞沙
• 猩紅／猩红 (xīnghóng)
• 赤丹
• 辰砂 (chénshā)
• 銀朱／银朱

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
丹	砂
たん Grade: S	さ Grade: 6
on’yomi

Noun

丹(たん)砂(さ) • (tansa) 

1. red sand
2. cinnabar

Synonyms

• 辰砂(しんしゃ) (shinsha)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
丹	砂
たん Grade: S	しゃ Grade: 6
on’yomi

Noun

丹(たん)砂(しゃ) • (tansha) 

1. Alternative form of 丹砂 (tansa)

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN