丹 — kanji meaning “rust-colored”
丹
rust-colored, red, red lead, pills, sincerity
- Meanings
- rust-colored, red, red lead, pills, sincerity
- On'yomi
- タン (tan)
- Kun'yomi
- に
- Name readings
- た、たみ、まこと
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1402 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 3
- Chinese reading
- dān — Chinese character page
Words with 丹
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丹精 | たんせい tansei | working earnestly; sincerity; diligence |
| 丹念 | たんねん tannen | painstaking; careful; meticulous |
| 牡丹 | ぼたん botan | tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan |
| 丹波 | たんば tanba | Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures) |
| 伊勢丹 | いせたん isetan | Isetan (department store) |
| 丹後 | たんご tango | Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture) |
| 切支丹 | キリシタン kirishitan | Christianity (in feudal Japan); Christian |
| 丹田 | たんでん tanden | point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques) |
| 仁丹 | じんたん jintan | Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees |
| 丹頂 | たんちょう tanchou | red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane |
| 丹前 | たんぜん tanzen | large padded kimono |
| 葉牡丹 | はぼたん habotan | ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) |
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