丹田

Chinese

		red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar	field; farm
simp. and trad. (丹田)		丹	田

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dāntián

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ tin⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tân-thièn
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tan-tiân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dang¹ cang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dāntián
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dantián
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹-tʻien²
    • Yale: dān-tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dantyan
    • Palladius: даньтянь (danʹtjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan¹ tin⁴
    • Yale: dāan tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tân-thièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: dan^ˊ tien^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: dan¹ tian²
    • Sinological IPA: /tan²⁴ tʰi̯en¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-tiân
    • Tâi-lô: tan-tiân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dandieen
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³ tiɛn²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dang¹ cang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tang tshâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ³³⁻²³ t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

丹田

1. (traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts) dantian
2. Any one of the 3 dantian:
   1. the upper dantian (上丹田), between the eyebrows
   2. the center dantian (中丹田), at the solar plexus
   3. the lower dantian (下丹田), below the navel

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (丹田):

• → Japanese: 丹田(たんでん) (tanden)
• → Korean: 단전(丹田) (danjeon)
• → Vietnamese: đan điền (丹田)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
丹	田
たん Grade: S	でん Grade: 1
on'yomi	goon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tã̠ndẽ̞ɴ]
• (Tokyo) たんでん [tàńdéń] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

丹(たん)田(でん) • (tanden) 

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) dantian

References

• “丹田”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
丹	田

Noun

丹田 • (danjeon) (hangeul 단전)

1. hanja form^? of 단전 (“dantian”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
丹	田

Noun

丹田

1. chữ Hán form of đan điền (“dantian”)