丹たん砂しゃ

noun

cinnabar

A bright red mineral (mercury sulfide) used historically as a pigment and in traditional medicine. This is a technical or literary term; in everyday contexts, 辰砂 (しんしゃ) is more common.

• 古こ代だい中ちゅう国ごくでは、丹たん砂しゃは不ふ老ろう長ちょう寿じゅの薬くすりとして珍ちん重ちょうされた。

  In ancient China, cinnabar was prized as an elixir of immortality.