檀 — Chinese character
檀
tán
sandalwood, hardwood; surname
- Pinyin
- tán
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 木 亶
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 亶
- Japanese
- 檀 as a kanji
Common words with 檀
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 紫檀 | zǐ tán | red sandalwood |
| 檀香 | tán xiāng | sandalwood |
| 旃檀 | zhān tán | sandalwood (loanword from Sanskrit "candana") |
| 青檀 | qīng tán | blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸 |
| 微凹黄檀 (微凹黃檀) | wēi āo huáng tán | cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) |
| 栴檀 | zhān tán | sandalwood |
| 檀中 | tán zhōng | see 膻中 (dàn zhōng) |
| 檀越 | tán yuè | (Buddhism) benefactor (designation of a lay person by a monk) |
| 青檀树 (青檀樹) | qīng tán shù | blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸 |
English words written with 檀
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.