丹 (dān): red, pellet, powder
丹 (dān) is a Chinese character meaning “red.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 冂 (structural) and 亠 (structural). It ranks #1272 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 丹 a red pellet 丶 from a mine 井. Its radical form 丶 (dot) appears in many related characters such as 为 (wéi, as (in the capacity of)), 主 (zhǔ, owner), 举 (jǔ, to lift).
Definitions
- red
- pellet
- powder
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA red pellet 丶 from a mine 井
Decomposition: ⿻冂亠 (layout: overlay)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丹尼 | dān ní | Danny (name) |
| 丹尼斯proper-noun | dān ní sī | Dennis (name) |
| 丹尼尔proper-noun | dān ní ěr | Daniel (name) |
| 丹佛proper-noun | dān fó | Denver, Colorado |
| 乔丹proper-noun | qiáo dān | (name) Jordan |
| 丹麦proper-noun | dān mài | Denmark |
| 苏丹noun | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
| 牡丹noun | mǔ dan | tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) |
| 丹东proper-noun | dān dōng | see 丹東市|丹东市 |
| 灵丹妙药phrase | líng dān miào yào | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom) |
| 鹿特丹proper-noun | lù tè dān | Rotterdam, port city in the Netherlands |
| 丹参noun | dān shēn | (botany) red sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza) |
| 不丹proper-noun | bù dān | Bhutan |
| 丹阳proper-noun | dān yáng | see 丹陽市|丹阳市 |
| 丹田noun | dān tián | pubic region |
丹 appears in 100 compound words: 45 as the first character, 35 as the last, and 20 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 丹 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Showing 3 of 5 idioms containing 丹.
Example Sentences
写好丹字需要掌握正确的笔画顺序。
xiě hǎo dān zì xū yāo zhǎng wò zhēng què de bǐ huà shùn xù .
To write the character "丹" correctly, one must master the proper stroke order.
丹麦3/24大选 总理拚连任主打国防与格陵...
dān mài 3 2 4 dà xuǎn zǒng lǐ 拚 lián rèn zhǔ dǎ guó fáng yǔ gé líng . . .
Denmark's 3/24 general election Prime Minister is fighting for re-election, focusing on national defense and Green...
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mó gēn shì dān lì : chāo dà guī mó yè zhě A I zhī chū jiāng chāo yuè wǎng lù pāo mò gāo . . .
Morgan Stanley: AI spending by hyperscalers will surpass the high of the Internet bubble...
离婚黄子佼半年!孟耿如近况曝光 周丹薇泄私下互动
lí hūn huáng zǐ 佼 bàn nián ! mèng gěng rú jìn kuàng pù guāng zhōu dān 薇 xiè sī xià hù dòng
Divorced Huang Zijiao for half a year! Meng Gengru's recent situation was exposed, and Zhou Danwei leaked private interactions
新春走军营丨万里山河皆战位 一片丹心护团圆
xīn chūn zǒu jūn yíng 丨 wàn lǐ shān hé jiē zhàn wèi yī piàn dān xīn hù tuán yuán
New Year's walk to the barracks丨Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are in battle positions, and a piece of heart protects the reunion
东南亚加里曼丹岛附近发生7级地震
dōng nán yà jiā lǐ 曼 dān dǎo fù jìn fā shēng 7 jí dì zhèn
A magnitude 7 earthquake occurred near the island of Kalimantan in Southeast Asia
乔丹先生突然醒了。
Qiáodān xiānsheng tūrán xǐng le.
Mr Jordan woke up suddenly.
冰岛以前属于丹麦。
Bīngdǎo yǐqián shǔyú Dānmài.
Iceland used to belong to Denmark.
威尔逊先生对丹尼斯很生气。
Wēi'ěrxùn xiānsheng duì Dānnísī hěn shēngqì.
Mr. Wilson is angry at Dennis.
杰西死寂般沈默地盯着乔丹看。
Jiéxī sǐjì bān chén mò de dīng zhe Qiáodān kàn.
Jessie stared at Jordan in dead silence.
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