淡
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insipid; diluted; weak; mild; light in color; tasteless; indifferent; (variant of 氮[dan4]) nitrogen
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 淡
- Common rank
- #1,234
- Unicode
- U+6DE1
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
thin · Heisig RSH #175
火 fire + 水 water + 炎 inflammation
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 淡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 君子之交淡如水 | a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) | |
| 淡水区 | Tamsui or Danshui District, New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan | |
| 平淡无奇 | ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about | |
| 淡水鱼 | freshwater fish | |
| 淡水湖 | freshwater lake | |
| 冷淡关系 | cold relations (e.g. between countries) | |
| 性冷淡 | frigidity | |
| 淡水 | Tamsui or Danshui, district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan | |
| 淡水 | freshwater | |
| 淡脚树莺 | (bird species of China) pale-footed bush warbler (Hemitesia pallidipes) | |
| 淡化 | to water down; to play down; to trivialize; to weaken; to become dull with time; to desali… | |
| 淡蓝色 | light blue | |
| 平淡 | flat; dull; ordinary; nothing special | |
| 淡出 | to fade out (cinema); to withdraw from (politics, acting etc); to fade from (memory) | |
| 淡光 | shimmer | |
| 淡定 | calm and collected; unperturbed | |
| 淡黄 | light yellow | |
| 淡腹点翅朱雀 | (bird species of China) Sharpe's rosefinch (Carpodacus verreauxii) | |
| 清淡 | light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored); insipid; slack (sales) | |
| 淡然 | tranquil and calm; indifferent |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 炎 — compare how they read.