旦
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(literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 日 +1
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 旦
- Common rank
- #1,650
- Unicode
- U+65E6
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Formation & memory
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Words with 旦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复旦大学 | Fudan University, Shanghai | |
| 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福 | fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); … | |
| 大柴旦行政委员会 | Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族… | |
| 大柴旦行政区 | Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族… | |
| 巴旦木 | almond (loanword) | |
| 刀马旦 | female warrior role in Chinese opera | |
| 约旦河 | Jordan River (in southwestern Asia) | |
| 元旦节 | New Year's Day | |
| 一旦 | in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day | |
| 花旦 | role of vivacious young female in Chinese opera | |
| 文旦 | pomelo | |
| 平旦 | (literary) daybreak; dawn | |
| 老旦 | old woman role in Chinese opera | |
| 旦角 | dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors) | |
| 正旦 | starring female role in a Chinese opera | |
| 毁于一旦 | (idiom) ruined in a short time (esp. of sth that took a long time or great effort to achie… | |
| 魔王撒旦 | Satan, Devil king | |
| 双旦 | Christmas and New Year's Day | |
| 武旦 | female military role in a Chinese opera | |
| 约旦 | Jordan (country) |
Sound family
These characters use 旦 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旦 sound part | dawn; morning; day | |
| 量 | measure, volume; amount, quantity | |
| 胆 | gallbladder; gall, guts, courage | |
| 坦 | flat, level, smooth; candid, open | |
| 担 | to bear, to carry; burden, responsibility | |
| 但 | only; but, however, yet, still | |
| 袒 | to strip, to bare | |
| 疸 | jaundice; stomach disorder | |
| 靼 | the Tartars | |
| 怛 | grieving; worried | |
| 亶 | real, sincere, true; truth | |
| 妲 | concubine of the last Shang emperor | |
| 笪 | a coarse mat of rushes or bamboo | |
| 钽 | tantalum |