Chinese symbol for “panacea”
万灵丹
wàn líng dān
Traditional: 萬靈丹
panacea; cure-all
The closest CC-CEDICT match for panacea is 万灵丹 (wàn líng dān), defined as: panacea; cure-all.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “panacea”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圣药 (聖藥) | shèng yào | panacea |
| 良药 (良藥) | liáng yào | good medicine; panacea |
| 灵丹妙药 (靈丹妙藥) | líng dān miào yào | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea |
| 万应灵丹 (萬應靈丹) | wàn yìng líng dān | panacea |
| 灵药 (靈藥) | líng yào | legendary magic potion of immortals; panacea |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 万灵丹.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万人 (萬人) | wàn rén | ten thousand people; all the people |
| 千万 (千萬) | qiān wàn | ten million; countless |
| 百万 (百萬) | bǎi wàn | million |
| 万岁 (萬歲) | wàn suì | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty |
| 万一 (萬一) | wàn yī | just in case; if by any chance |
| 万名 (萬名) | wàn míng | all names |
| 灵魂 (靈魂) | líng hún | soul; spirit |
| 心灵 (心靈) | xīn líng | bright; smart |
| 苏丹 (蘇丹) | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
See also: Japanese symbol for “panacea”.
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.