丹

Meaning

丹 centers on a deep, earthy red color, like rust or red lead. The meanings of pills and sincerity are extensions: pills were often red in traditional medicine, and sincerity is associated with a pure, unadorned heart, like the color red.

• 丹に

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

• 丹波たんば

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

• 伊勢丹いせたん

  Isetan (department store)

• 牡丹ぼたん

  tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan

• 切支丹キリシタン

  Christianity (in feudal Japan); Christian

• 丹後たんご

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

• 丹念たんねん
  N1

  painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

• 丹田たんでん

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

• 丹精たんせい

  working earnestly; sincerity; diligence; effort; pains

• 契丹きったん

  Khitan people; Khitai; Kitan; Kidan

• 丹頂たんちょう

  red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis); Japanese crane

• 仁丹じんたん

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

• 両丹りょうたん

  Ryōtan (region in Kansai corresponding to the two historical provinces of Tanba and Tango)

• 丹前たんぜん

  large padded kimono

• 丹前風呂たんぜんぶろ

  Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)

• 丹唇たんしん

  red lips

• 丹塗りにぬり

  painting red; vermillion lacquering

• 丹州たんしゅう

  Tanshū (the two former provinces of Tanba and Tango)

• 丹心たんしん

  sincerity; faithfulness

• 丹朱たんしゅ

  cinnabar; vermilion

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