旦
dàn HSK5

dawn

旦 dàn
dan role noun
the female role in traditional Chinese opera, traditionally played by men

梅兰芳是著名的京剧旦角。

Méi Lán​fāng shì zhù​míng de Jīng​jù dàn jué.

Mei Lanfang was a famous Peking Opera actor specializing in female roles.

dawn particle
dawn, daybreak, or a specific day (literary)

由于工作任务紧迫，他经常通宵达旦地加班。

yóu​yú gōng​zuò rèn​wu jǐn​pò, tā jīng​cháng tōng​xiāo​dá​dàn de jiā​bān.

Due to urgent work tasks, he often works through the night until dawn.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,300th most common 96.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,147th most common 78.2 per million appears in 35% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.07 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
6.41 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+65E6

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