丹田

Chinese

 
red; pellet; powder
red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
field; farm
simp. and trad.
(丹田)

Pronunciation


Noun

丹田

  1. (traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts) dantian
  2. Any one of the 3 dantian:
    1. the upper dantian (上丹田), between the eyebrows
    2. the center dantian (中丹田), at the solar plexus
    3. the lower dantian (下丹田), below the navel

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (丹田):
  • Japanese: 丹田(たんでん) (tanden)
  • Korean: 단전(丹田) (danjeon)
  • Vietnamese: đan điền (丹田)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
たん
Grade: S
でん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んでん [tàńdéń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [tã̠ndẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

(たん)(でん) • (tanden) 

  1. dantian

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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