丹 dān
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dān
noun
cinnabar
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Native HgS, red in color (Guoyu '丹' n 1; Unihan '丹') -
dān
noun
a pellet; a powder; a mixture
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '丹' n 2) -
dān
adjective
red; vermilion
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 红色的 (Guoyu '丹' adj 1; Unihan '丹') -
dān
proper noun
Dan
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '丹' n 3) -
dān
adjective
utterly sincere; wholly devoted
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 赤诚 (Guoyu '丹' adj 2)
Contained in
- 苏丹镑(蘇丹鎊) Sudanese pound
- 丹尼尔(丹尼爾) Daniel
- 红毛丹(紅毛丹) rambutan or rumbutan (tropical fruit) (Nephelium lappaceum)
- 丹青 painting
- 拉马丹(拉馬丹) Ramadan
- 莱麦丹(萊麥丹) Ramadan
- 灵丹妙药(靈丹妙藥) a miraculous cure
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
- 牡丹纹(牡丹紋) peony design
- 内丹(內丹) Taoist internal alchemy
- 天竺牡丹 dahlia
- 各拉丹冬山 Mount Geladaindong or Geladandong in Qinghai
- 山丹 coral lily
- 丹宁(丹寧) denim; tannin
- 金丹 golden elixir
- 外丹 Taoist external alchemy
- 一片丹心 a sincere heart
- 丹魄 amber
- 牡丹 peony ; peony
- 丹彩 vermilion; rhetorical language
- 银丹(銀丹) lunar caustic (fused silver nitrate, shaped into a stick and used as a cauterizing agent)
- 丹顶鹤(丹頂鶴) red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)
- 丹桂 orange osmanthus
- 牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶持(牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶持) Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves . However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
Also contained in
苏丹 、 南丹 、 阿姆斯特丹 、 丹眉流 、 万丹 、 阿丹 、 丹徒区 、 丹东市 、 牡丹卡 、 契丹国 、 丹棱 、 南丹县 、 于丹 、 史丹顿岛 、 马尔丹 、 丹寨 、 丹寨县 、 契丹人 、 牡丹乡 、 丹巴 、 喀喇契丹 、 丹霞山 、 德里苏丹国 、 燕太子丹 、 丹徒 、 沙里八丹 、 丹阳市
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷八十六 何武王嘉師丹傳 Volume 86: He Wu, Wang Jia and Shi Dan Book of Han 漢書 — count: 38
- 卷八十二 王商史丹傅喜傳 Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
- 卷二十七 宣張二王杜郭吳承鄭趙列傳 Volume 27: Biographies of Xuan, Zang, two Wangs, Du, Guo, Wu, Cheng, Zheng, Zhao Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 33
- 卷二百〇五 志第一百五十八 藝文四 Volume 205 Treatises 158: Arts and Literature 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 33
- 卷五十三 志第二十九 禮七 Volume 53 Treatises 29: Rites 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 27
- 卷三十八 志第十九: 禮十一 外國使入見儀 曲宴儀 朝辭儀 新定夏使儀注 Volume 38 Treatises 19: Rites 11 - Ceremonies for Receiving Foreign Emissaries; Music for Banquets; Farewell Rituals; Ceremonies for Newly Appointed Officials History of Jin 金史 — count: 25
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 21
- 卷二十二 朱景王杜馬劉傅堅馬列傳 Volume 22: Biographies of Zhu, Jing, Wang, Du, Ma, Liu, Fu, Jian, Ma Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 20
- 《刺客列傳》 Biographies of Assassins Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 19
- 卷一百九十七 列傳第一百二十二 循吏 Volume 197 Biographies 122: Virtuous Officials New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 18
Collocations
- 丹朱 (丹朱) 昔在帝丹朱 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 丹朱（伪） Yu Shu - Dan Zhu (forged) — count: 25
- 丹桓 (丹桓) 丹桓宮楹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 6
- 丹楹 (丹楹) 丹楹刻桷 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 序 Preface — count: 6
- 丹水 (丹水) 是謂丹水 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷四 墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms — count: 6
- 丹漆 (丹漆) 丹漆若何 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 6
- 师丹 (師丹) 師丹輔政 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十四上 食貨志 Volume 24a: Treatise on Trade 1 — count: 5
- 燕丹 (燕丹) 昔者荊軻慕燕丹之義 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魯仲連鄒陽列傳》 Biographies of Lu Zhonglian and Zou Yang — count: 4
- 史丹 (史丹) 長樂衛尉史丹為右將軍 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《漢興以來將相名臣年表》 Yearly Table of Statesmen, Generals and Officials since the Han Dynasty's Founding — count: 4
- 丹质 (丹質) 褚幕丹質 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 3
- 鲁丹 (魯丹) 魯丹三說中山之君而不受也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說林上第二十二 Chapter 22: Collections of Persuasions I — count: 3