Chinese symbol for “elixir”
仙丹
xiān dān
elixir; magic potion
The closest CC-CEDICT match for elixir is 仙丹 (xiān dān), defined as: elixir; magic potion.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “elixir”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灵丹妙药 (靈丹妙藥) | líng dān miào yào | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 仙丹.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 神仙 | shén xiān | Daoist immortal; supernatural entity |
| 仙女 | xiān nǚ | fairy |
| 仙子 | xiān zǐ | fairy |
| 仙人 | xiān rén | Daoist immortal; celestial being |
| 仙境 | xiān jìng | fairyland; wonderland |
| 仙桃 | xiān táo | the peaches of immortality of Goddess Xi Wangmu 西王母 |
| 苏丹 (蘇丹) | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
| 牡丹 | mǔ dan | tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “elixir”.
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.