丹田

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dāntián

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄢㄊㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ tin⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tân-thièn
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tan-tiân

(Teochew, Peng'im): dang¹ cang⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dāntián
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄢㄊㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dantián
  - Wade–Giles: tan¹-tʻien²
  - Yale: dān-tyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dantyan
  - Palladius: даньтянь (danʹtjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daan¹ tin⁴
  - Yale: dāan tìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ tin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ tin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tân-thièn
  - Hakka Romanization System: dan^ˊ tien^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dan¹ tian²
  - Sinological IPA: /tan²⁴ tʰi̯en¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-tiân
  - Tâi-lô: tan-tiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dandieen
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³ tiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dang¹ cang⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tang tshâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ³³⁻²³ t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

丹田

(traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts) dantian
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
丹	田
たん Grade: S	でん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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

Noun

丹(たん)田(でん) • (tanden)

dantian

References

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