Chinese symbol for “dan”
段位
duàn wèi
rank; class; (Japanese martial arts and board games) dan
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dan is 段位 (duàn wèi), defined as: rank; class; (Japanese martial arts and board games) dan.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 段位.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阶段 (階段) | jiē duàn | stage; section |
| 手段 | shǒu duàn | method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability |
| 片段 | piàn duàn | fragment (of speech etc); extract (from book etc) |
| 时段 (時段) | shí duàn | time interval; work shift |
| 段落 | duàn luò | phase; time interval |
| 现阶段 (現階段) | xiàn jiē duàn | at the present stage |
| 单位 (單位) | dān wèi | unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole) |
| 位于 (位於) | wèi yú | to be located at; to be situated at |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dan”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.