丹
dānDān HSK7

cinnabar

丹 dān frequency
cinnabar noun
the mineral cinnabar used as a pigment or in alchemy

这种颜料中含有一种名为丹的天然成分。

zhè zhǒng yán​liào zhōng hán​yǒu yī zhǒng míng​wéi dān de tiān​rán chéng​fèn.

This pigment contains a natural ingredient called cinnabar.

red noun
a bright red or vermilion color

他挥毫泼墨，在画卷上点染了几抹丹色。

tā huī​háo pō​mò, zài huà​juàn shàng diǎn​rǎn le jǐ mǒ dān sè.

He wielded his brush and added a few strokes of vermilion to the scroll.

pellet noun
a medicinal or alchemical pill or powder

传说太上老君的炉里炼出了一颗神丹。

chuán​shuō Tài​shàng Lǎo​jūn de lú lǐ liàn​chū le yī kē shén​dān.

Legend has it that a divine elixir was refined in Taishang Laojun's furnace.

丹 Dān
Dan noun
a proper noun used as a given name, typically for a person.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,280th most common 99.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,001st most common 104.4 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
31.9 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
27.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+4E39

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)