淡 (dàn): meaning and stroke order
淡 (dàn) means insipid, diluted, weak, mild, light in color, tasteless, indifferent.
淡
- Simplified
- 淡
- Traditional
- 淡 (same form)
- Pinyin
- dàn
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Stroke order of 淡
淡
- dàn insipid; diluted
- 11 strokes
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Meaning of 淡
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dàn
- insipid
- diluted
- weak
- mild
- light in color
- tasteless
- indifferent
- (variant of 氮[dan4]) nitrogen
Radical and structure
- 淡
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 11 strokes · 氵 on the left, 炎 on the right
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Words with 淡
- 淡淡 dàn dàn faint; dim
- 冷淡 lěng dàn cold; indifferent
- 清淡 qīng dàn light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored); insipid
淡 in our stories
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淡蓝色的字迹慢慢浮现了出来——是一列列人名，每个名字后面都写着“米一斗”。
dàn lánsè de zìjì mànmàn fúxiàn le chūlai shì yí liè liè rénmíng měi gè míngzi hòumiàn dōu xiě zhe mǐ yì dǒu
Pale blue writing slowly surfaced: columns of names, each followed by "one dou of rice".
From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 淡
- Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).