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Mythic Mandarin

旦 (dàn): meaning and stroke order

旦 (dàn) means (literary) dawn; daybreak.

旦

Simplified
旦
Traditional
旦 (same form)
Pinyin
dàn

Stroke order of 旦

旦

  • dàn (literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 旦

  1. dàn
    • (literary) dawn; daybreak
    • dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)

Radical and structure

旦
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 5 strokes · 日 on top, 一 below

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 旦

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).