檀那

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (檀那)		檀	那
alternative forms		檀𨚗

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit दान (dāna).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tánnà

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ ㄋㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tánnà
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ ㄋㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tánnà
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²-na⁴
    • Yale: tán-nà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarnnah
    • Palladius: таньна (tanʹna)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵ nä⁵¹/

Verb

檀那

1. (Buddhism) to donate; to give alms

Noun

檀那

1. (Buddhism) donor; benefactor (of a monastery)

Descendants

• → Japanese: 旦那 (danna)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
檀	那
だん Jinmeiyō	な Grade: S
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 檀那 – see the following entry.

【旦那だんな】 [noun] (Buddhism) generosity as one of the Buddhist perfections (पारमिता (pāramitā)) [noun] (Buddhism) a donation of money, goods, or service to monks or a temple [noun] (Buddhism) a person who makes such a donation: a patron [noun] (archaic) in the Japanese medieval period, overnight visitors to a shrine or temple [noun] (archaic) by extension, a gentleman [noun] broadly, a patron, a husband, a master: [noun] (honorific) a master of servants, a boss of employees, the master of the house [noun] (honorific) by extension, an honorific for one's own or someone else's husband [noun] (honorific) also by extension, used by shopkeepers to address a male customer or by an artisan to refer to one's own school or lineage [noun] (honorific) a term used by a concubine, mistress, or geisha to refer to one's own patron: a sugar daddy [noun] (honorific) a term used by female servants to refer to the mistress of the house

(This term, 檀那, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

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