淡 — kanji meaning “thin”
淡
thin, faint, pale, fleeting
- Meanings
- thin, faint, pale, fleeting
- On'yomi
- タン (tan)
- Kun'yomi
- あわ.い
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1436 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 85
- Chinese reading
- dàn — Chinese character page
Words with 淡
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淡々 | たんたん tantan | uninterested; unconcerned; indifferent |
| 冷淡 | れいたん reitan | cool; indifferent; apathetic |
| 淡白 | たんぱく tanpaku | light (flavor, color, etc.); simple; plain |
| 淡い | あわい awai | light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale |
| 淡水 | たんすい tansui | fresh water (i.e. not salt water) |
| 濃淡 | のうたん noutan | light and shade; shade (of colour, color) |
| 淡水魚 | たんすいぎょ tansuigyo | freshwater fish |
| 淡々 | あわあわ awaawa | lightly; faintly; delicately |
| 淡路 | あわじ awaji | Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture) |
| 淡色 | たんしょく tanshoku | light color; light colour |
| 淡雪 | あわゆき awayuki | light snow; light snowfall; thin layer of snow |
| 淡紅 | たんこう tankou | pink; rose |
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