单 (dān): meaning and stroke order

单 (dān) means bill, list, form, single, only, sole, odd number, 个, surname Shan, used in 单于.

单

Simplified: 单
Traditional: 單
Pinyin: dān · Shàn · chán

Stroke order of 单

单

Shàn surname Shan
chán used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]
dān bill; list
8 strokes
Traditional form: 單

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 单

dān Traditional 單
- bill
- list
- form
- single
- only
- sole
- odd number
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Shàn Traditional 單
- surname Shan
chán Traditional 單
- used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]

Radical and structure

单: Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 单

单子 dān zǐ the only son of a family; (functional programming or philosophy) monad
单词 dān cí word; CL:個|个[ge4]
菜单 cài dān menu; CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
简单 jiǎn dān simple; not complicated
孤单 gū dān lone; lonely
订单 dìng dān (purchase) order
报价单 bào jià dān quotation; price list
单车 dān chē (coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle)

单 in our stories

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他马上就下了单，心里还想：“这么便宜，太划算了！”

tā mǎshàng jiù xià le dān xīnli hái xiǎng zhème piányi tài huásuàn le

He ordered it at once, thinking, "So cheap, what a bargain!"

From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

Stories using 单

The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).