丹 — Chinese character
丹
dān
cinnabar, red, vermilion; pellet, powder
- Pinyin
- dān
- Radical
- 3 ⼂ (Dot)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 冂 亠
- Formation
- ideographic — A red pellet 丶 from a mine 井
- Japanese
- 丹 as a kanji
Common words with 丹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苏丹 (蘇丹) | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
| 牡丹 | mǔ dan | tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) |
| 灵丹妙药 (靈丹妙藥) | líng dān miào yào | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea |
| 丹凤 (丹鳳) | dān fèng | red phoenix |
| 炼丹 (煉丹) | liàn dān | to concoct pills of immortality |
| 丹田 | dān tián | pubic region; point two inches below the navel where one's qi resides |
| 丹青 | dān qīng | painting |
| 山丹 | shān dān | coral lily (Lilium pumilum) |
| 红毛丹 (紅毛丹) | hóng máo dān | rambutan or rumbutan (tropical fruit) (Nephelium lappaceum) |
| 仙丹 | xiān dān | elixir; magic potion |
| 丹顶鹤 (丹頂鶴) | dān dǐng hè | (bird species of China) red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) |
| 丹宁 (丹寧) | dān níng | (loanword) denim; tannin |
English words written with 丹
丹 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.