淡

Meaning

淡 centers on a lack of intensity or substance: something thin, faint, pale, or fleeting. The meanings all describe a quality that is barely present or quickly passing.

• 淡いあわい
  N1

  light; faint; pale; fleeting

• 淡々たんたん

  uninterested; unconcerned; indifferent; dispassionate; matter-of-fact; detached

• 淡路あわじ

  Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)

• 淡水たんすい
  N2

  fresh water (i.e. not salt water)

• 冷淡れいたん
  N1

  cool; indifferent; apathetic; half-hearted

• 淡白たんぱく

  light (flavor, color, etc.); simple; plain

• 濃淡のうたん

  light and shade; shade (of colour, color)

• 淡水魚たんすいぎょ

  freshwater fish

• 淡色たんしょく

  light color; light colour

• 淡雪あわゆき

  light snow; light snowfall; thin layer of snow

• 淡紅たんこう

  pink; rose

• 淡紅色たんこうしょく

  pink; rose

• 冷淡無情れいたんむじょう

  cold-hearted; callous; pitiless; unsympathetic

• 君子の交わりは淡きこと水のごとしくんしのまじわりはあわきことみずのごとし

  friendships between wise men are plain and hence rock solid

• 平淡へいたん

  simple; quiet

• 得意淡然とくいたんぜん

  not letting oneself puffed up by one's success; maintaining a serene state of mind when one has achieved a great success

• 恬淡てんたん

  disinterested; unselfish; indifferent; detached

• 恬淡虚無てんたんきょむ

  rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless

• 枯淡こたん

  elegant simplicity

• 海水淡水化かいすいたんすいか

  desalination

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