靛 — Chinese character
靛
diàn
indigo, blue dye
- Pinyin
- diàn
- Radical
- 174 ⾭ (Blue)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 青 定
- Formation
- pictophonetic — blue; meaning component 青; sound component 定
Common words with 靛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 靛蓝 (靛藍) | diàn lán | indigo (dye) |
| 蓝靛 (藍靛) | lán diàn | indigo |
| 靛青 | diàn qīng | indigo |
| 靛蓝色 (靛藍色) | diàn lán sè | indigo blue |
| 山靛 | shān diàn | (botany) the spurges, the mercuries (plants of genus Mercurialis) |
| 青靛 | qīng diàn | indigo |
| 靛冠噪鹛 (靛冠噪鶥) | diàn guān zào méi | (bird species of China) blue-crowned laughingthrush (Pterorhinus courtoisi) |
| 靛油 | diàn yóu | aniline oil |
| 靛白 | diàn bái | indigo white |
| 靛色 | diàn sè | indigo (color) |
| 靛花 | diàn huā | indigo |
English words written with 靛
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.
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