How to write 旦

旦 [dàn] 1. 早晨。 (Morning; dawn) 2. 表示某一天，亦指农历的初一日。 (Indicates a certain day, also refers to the first day of the lunar month.) 3. 传统戏剧里扮演女子的角色。 (Actress or female character type in traditional opera.) 4. 纤度单位，九千米长的纤维重量为多少克，它的纤度就是多少旦。 (A unit of fineness, indicating how many grams a fiber weighs for every nine thousand meters of length.) 本义: 天亮，破晓，夜刚尽日初出时. (Original meaning: dawn; daybreak, the time when night has just ended and the sun starts to rise.) 造字法: 指事。甲骨文字形，象太阳从地面刚刚升起的样子。 (Character formation method: pictophonetic. The oracle bone script resembles the sun just rising from the ground.) 引: 1. 《诗·郑风·女曰鸡鸣》：女曰:“鸡鸣”，士曰:“昧旦”。 (From the Book of Songs, "The Girl Says: 'The rooster crows,' and the scholar says: 'It is dawn.'") 2. 《世说新语·贤媛》：夜穿墉以视之，达旦忘反。 (From "The Lives of Exemplary Women": "At night, one climbs the wall to look at it, forgetting to return until dawn.") 3. 《韩非子·外储说左上》：夫犬马，人所知也，旦暮罄于前，不可类之，故难。 (From Han Feizi: "Dogs and horses are well known to people; their appearances at dawn and dusk cannot be classified, which is difficult.") 4. 《左传·成公十六年》：旦而战，见星未已。 (From Zuo Zhuan: “Battle at dawn, the stars have not yet disappeared.”) 5. 清· 方苞《狱中杂记》：号呼达旦。 (From "Miscellaneous Notes from Prison": "Crying out until dawn.") 6. 《乐府诗集·木兰诗》：旦辞爷娘去，暮宿黄河边。 (From "Mulan's Poem": "At dawn, I bid farewell to my parents, and at dusk I rest by the Yellow River.") 例: 又如: 旦日 (at dawn); 旦明 (at dawn). (Examples: "dawn day"; "at dawn.") 早晨 ([En.] morning) 引: 1. 《史记·刺客列传》：旦夕得甘毳以养亲。 (From Records of the Grand Historian: "Morning and evening, one obtains sweet velvet to support one's parents.") 例: 又如: 旦夕之危 (extremely urgent danger); 旦气 (morning air); 旦晚 (morning and evening). (Examples: "the danger of dawn and dusk"; "the air of early morning"; "morning and evening.") 天，日; 某日 ([En.] day) 引: 1. 《战国策·燕策》：人有卖骏马者，比三旦立市，人莫之知。 (From Strategies of the Warring States: "There is someone selling horses, and for three days, no one knows of it.") 例: 又如: 一旦 (in one day); 元旦 (the first day of the new year); 旦昏 (day and night). (Examples: "in one day"; "New Year’s Day"; "day and night.") 特指农历初一日 ([En.] the first day of the lunar month) 例: 如: 旦望 (the lunar new moon, or the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month); 旦会 (morning assembly on the first day of the lunar month). (Examples: "new moon" (literally the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month); "morning assembly on the first day of the lunar month.") 旦角，传统戏剧中的女演员或女性角色类型。女主角称正旦，又有副旦、贴旦、外旦、小旦、大旦、老旦、花旦、色旦、搽旦等 ([En.] actress or female character type in opera)