Meanings
Rust-colored, Red, Red Lead, Pills, Sincerity
Radicals
Decomposition
⿻冂亠
Etymology
Ideographic: A red pellet 丶 from a mine 井
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
Words Using This Kanji
45 words totalcockatoo
chief trader (of the Dutch trading post at Dejima)
type of smelling salts sold in the late Edo period
Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties)
Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)
writing an inscription on a stone monument (e.g. before carving it)
Tanshū (the two former provinces of Tanba and Tango)
Ryōtan (region in Kansai corresponding to the two historical provinces of Tanba and Tango)
orange color traditionally worn by the crown prince
Khitan people
Khitan script
Kara Khitai (Central Asian Khitan empire; 1132-1211)
greenish-black earth
red
swine erysipelas
to take pains (doing something)
Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)
Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)
tan-e
red