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Pinyin dān
Radical
丿
Strokes
4
Definition
red / pellet / powder / cinnabar
Usage
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丹 [dān] 名 1. 红色 (red) - 例: 丹砂 (cinnabar) - 例: 丹桂 (an ornamental plant with orange-red flowers) - 例: 丹心碧血 (sincere loyalty, precious blood) - 例: 丹青 (a term for traditional Chinese blue and red pigment) 2. 依成方制成的颗粒状或粉末状的中药 (pellet or powder made from traditional Chinese medicine) - 例: 丸散膏丹 (traditional Chinese medicine in pellet or powder form) 3. 姓 (surname) 引 1. 《说文》: 丹,巴越之赤石也。象采丹井。 (Cinnabar is the red stone from the Ba and Yue regions, resembling a cinnabar mining pit.) 2. 《书·禹贡》: 砺砥砮丹。 3. 《山海经·大荒北经》: 有始州之国,有丹山。 4. 《荀子·正论》: 加之以丹矸。 5. 《史记·陈涉世家》: 乃丹书帛曰“陈胜王”,置入所罾鱼腹中。 例 - 又如: 丹矸 (cinnabar); 丹砂 (a kind of red mineral, also called “cinnabar”); 丹砾 (mineral cinnabar, can be used for medicinal purposes); 丹铅 (cinnabar and lead powder, tools used by ancient scholars for textual criticism) 2. 道家炼制的所谓长生不老药。又称丹头;丹液 (the so-called elixirs of immortality in Taoism; also called "pills of immortality"). - 例: 炼丹 (refining pills); 丹剂 (elixir, pill made from special ingredients) 3. 古代用作染色的颜料 (ancient dye pigments). - 引: 《仪礼·乡射礼记》: 凡画者丹质。 4. 指南方 (refers to the south). - 例: 丹山 (mountains in the southern region). 5. 帝王的,帝王居住的 (imperial, relating to the emperor). - 例: 丹诏 (imperial edict); 丹跸 (the imperial carriage); 丹书铁券 (edict allowing nobles to pass down privileges for generations). 6. 依成方制成的颗粒状或粉末状的中成药 (pellet; powder). - 引: 山海丹, 灵丹妙药 (mythical pills promising miraculous cures). 形 1. 红色,赤色 (red, crimson) - 引: 《周礼·考工记》: 染羽以朱湛丹秫。 - 例: 丹秫 (red sorghum); 丹陛云墀 (carved red steps); 丹阙 (red royal towers); 丹毫 (red lettered pen). 2. 赤诚 (sincere, whole-hearted). - 例: 丹悃 (sincerity); 丹诚 (whole-heartedness). 3. 炼丹的 (relating to the making of pills of immortality). - 例: 丹鼎 (Taoist term for a type of pill-making vessel); 丹丘 (mythical realm of immortals). 动 1. 涂染成红色 (to dye or redden). - 引: 《新唐书》: 杀卒四万,血丹野。 - 例: 丹野 (red wilderness).
fū nán dān
carbofuran
Jiā lǐ màn dān Dǎo
Kalimantan island (Indonesian name for Borneo island)
fēng dān bái lù
Fontainebleau
bā dān jí lín shā mò
Badain Jaran Desert
liàn dān shù
maker of immortality pill / concocting magic pills
Mǔ dan jiāng shì
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
mǔ dān yuán
Peony Garden
mǔ dān fēng
Mudan Peak
dān shā
cinnabar / mercuric sulfide HgS
Mǔ dan Tíng
The Peony Pavilion (1598), play by Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖|汤显祖[Tang1 Xian3 zu3]
Dān mài
Denmark
Sū dān
Sudan / sultan (ruler of some Muslim states, esp. Ottoman Emperor)
mǔ dan
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)
Dān jiāng kǒu
Danjiangkou county level city in Shiyan 十堰[Shi2 yan4], Hubei
liàn dān
to concoct pills of immortality
dān jiāng kǒu shuǐ kù
Danjiangkou Reservoir
Dān jiāng kǒu shì
Danjiangkou county level city in Shiyan 十堰[Shi2 yan4], Hubei
Dān dōng
Dandong prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China
Dān yáng
Danyang county level city in Zhenjiang 鎮江|镇江[Zhen4 jiang1], Jiangsu
Ā mǔ sī tè dān
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
dāo dān
Dao Dan
Bù dān
Bhutan
Mǔ dan jiāng
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
líng dān miào yào
effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems / panacea / elixir
Dān ní sī
Dennis (name)
xiān dān
elixir / magic potion
gá ěr dān
Galdan
jī dān
Kidan
Dān dōng shì
Dandong prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China
Qì dān
Qidan or Khitan, ethnic group in ancient China, a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liao River 遼河|辽河[Liao2 He2]

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