箪 — Chinese character
箪
dān
a small bamboo basket for rice
- Pinyin
- dān
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 单
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 单
- Traditional
- 簞
- Japanese
- 箪 as a kanji
Common words with 箪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疏水箪瓢 (疏水簞瓢) | shū shuǐ dān piáo | little water and few utensils; to live a frugal life (idiom) |
| 箪笥 (簞笥) | dān sì | bamboo box; vessels for holding food |
| 箪食壶浆 (簞食壺漿) | dān shí hú jiāng | to receive troops with food and drink (idiom); to give troops a hearty welcome |
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.