丹青

Chinese

		red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar	green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)
trad. (丹青)		丹	青
simp. #(丹青)		丹	青

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dānqīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ ㄑㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ cing¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tan-chheng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dang¹ cên¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dānqīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ ㄑㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dancing
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹-chʻing¹
    • Yale: dān-chīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: danching
    • Palladius: даньцин (danʹcin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan¹ cing¹
    • Yale: dāan chīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ tsing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ qing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-chheng
    • Tâi-lô: tan-tshing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: danzhefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dang¹ cên¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tang tsheⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ³³⁻²³ t͡sʰẽ³³/

Noun

丹青

1. cinnabar and ochre paints
2. red and blue-green
3. paint; pigment; dye
4. painting
5. (literary) historical records
6. (literary) obviousness

Japanese

Kanji in this term
丹	青
たん Grade: S	せい Grade: 1
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
丹靑 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From tan (丹, cinnabar red, vermilion, red) + sei (青, blue, green).

Noun

丹(たん)青(せい) • (tansei) 

1. red and blue
2. a painting

References

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

Korean

Noun

丹青 • (dancheong) (hangeul 단청)

1. Alternative spelling of 丹靑