淡
dàn HSK4

weak, bland, watery

淡 dàn
light adjective
light or pale in color

我喜欢穿淡绿色的衣服。

wǒ xǐ​huan chuān dàn lǜ​sè de yī​fu.

I like wearing light green clothes.

indifferent verb
cool or lacking in enthusiasm; mild in manner

经历过这些起伏后，他把名利看得非常淡。

jīng​lì guo zhè​xiē qǐ​fú hòu, tā bǎ míng​lì kàn de fēi​cháng dàn.

After these ups and downs, he cares very little for fame and fortune.

insipid adjective
weak in flavor, tasteless, or diluted

这汤的味道太淡了。

zhè tāng de wèi​dao tài dàn le.

This soup is too bland.

nitrogen noun
a chemical element; a variant form of the character 氮 dàn

在一些旧的文献里，氮元素常被写作淡。

zài yī​xiē jiù de wén​xiàn lǐ, dàn yuán​sù cháng bèi xiě​zuò dàn.

In some old literature, the element nitrogen was often written as the character '淡'.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,293rd most common 97.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,917th most common 22.0 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.08 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
59.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6DE1

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