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
- 炼丹术(煉丹術) maker of immortality pill; concocting magic pills
- 仁丹 Jintan
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
- 丹麦酥(丹麥酥) a danish
- 丹凤眼(丹鳳眼) red phoenix eyes (eyes whose outer corners incline upwards)
- 丹衷 real sincerity
- 丹参(丹參) red sage; Chinese sage
- 雅丹地貌 Yardang landform (formed by wind erosion)
- 万应灵丹(萬應靈丹) panacea
- 金丹 golden elixir
- 丹皮 the root bark of the peony tree
- 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.
- 红毛丹(紅毛丹) rambutan or rumbutan (tropical fruit) (Nephelium lappaceum)
- 史丹佛 Stanford
- 外丹 Taoist external alchemy
- 丹魄 amber
- 马缨丹(馬纓丹) lantana
- 丹桂 orange osmanthus
- 丹霄 a red sky
- 莱麦丹(萊麥丹) Ramadan
- 灵丹妙药(靈丹妙藥) a miraculous cure
- 牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶(牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶) 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.
- 天竺牡丹 dahlia
- 八宝丹(八寶丹) eight-jewel elixir
- 一片丹心 a sincere heart
Also contained in
苏丹 、 契丹国 、 鹿特丹 、 丹巴 、 丹布朗 、 丹棱 、 南丹县 、 德里苏丹国 、 赞丹 、 牡丹江 、 牡丹区 、 葛尔丹 、 沙里八丹 、 张丹 、 丹眉流 、 丹徒 、 山丹县 、 甘丹寺 、 丹佛 、 甄子丹 、 牡丹卡 、 阿丹 、 丹江口市 、 志丹 、 丹霞山 、 丹凤县
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 帝丹 (帝丹) 昔在帝丹朱 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 丹朱（伪） Yu Shu - Dan Zhu (forged) — count: 3
- 桷丹 (桷丹) 刻桷丹楹 — New Discussions 新語, 卷下 資質第七 至德第八 懷慮第九 本行第十 明誡第十一 思務第十二 Scroll 2 — count: 3