淡 (dàn)
Bland; light (flavor/color); indifferent.
How 淡 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 淡
- Simplified
- 淡 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 炎 N/A
Common words using 淡
- 平淡 píngdàn
- flat; dull; ordinary
- 淡定 dàndìng
- calm and collected; unperturbed
- 冷淡 lěngdàn
- cold; indifferent
- 扯淡 chědàn
- to talk nonsense
- 淡化 dànhuà
- to water down; to play down; to trivialize
- 淡忘 dànwàng
- to be forgotten; to fade from memory
- 淡淡 dàndàn
- faint; dim; dull
- 淡漠 dànmò
- apathetic; indifferent; unsympathetic
- 淡然 dànrán
- tranquil and calm; indifferent
- 清淡 qīngdàn
- light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored); insipid; slack (sales)
- 性冷淡 xìnglěngdàn
- frigidity
- 恬淡 tiándàn
- quiet and contented; indifferent to fame or gain
淡 in a sentence
這碗湯的味道太淡了，我想加一點鹽。
Zhè wǎn tāng de wèidào tài dàn le, wǒ xiǎng jiā yìdiǎn yán.
“The flavor of this soup is too bland; I want to add a little salt.”
How common is 淡?
淡 is the 1,291st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.8% of all running text.
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