丹 – vocab dash

Keyword

rust colored

rust-colored
red
red lead
pills
sincerity

Frequency: #1402
Strokes: 4
Grade: 8
JLPT (old): N1
Heisig: 2196

Readings

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Mnemonic

A painter grinds a lump of cinnabar into a thick paste and slaps it across the gate, leaving it glowing rust colored.

Stroke order

Used in kanji

坍collapse 彤red 旃woollen cloth 栴colorful autumn foliage 雘dye made from red soil

Used in vocabulary

丹たん念ねん

painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

Na-adjective

牡ぼ丹たん

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan; wild boar (meat)

Noun

丹に

red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium); vermilion

Noun

丹たん波ば

Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

Noun

丹たん

cinnabar; vermilion (mercury sulfide); red lead (trilead tetroxide); red color; vermilion pigment; elixir (esp. of immortality); pill; sincerity; true heart; devotion

Noun

伊い勢せ丹たん

Isetan (department store)

Noun

切支丹きりしたん

Christianity (in feudal Japan); Christian

Noun

丹たん精せい

working earnestly; sincerity; diligence; effort; pains

Noun

丹たん後ご

Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)

Noun

丹たん田でん

point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

Noun

丹たん頂ちょう

red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane; red-cap oranda (goldfish); Tanchō (koi variety); having a red crest or patch on the head (of a bird, fish, etc.)

Noun

仁じん丹たん

Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees

Noun

丹たん前ぜん

large padded kimono

Noun

葉は牡ぼ丹たん

ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

Noun