仙丹

Chinese

		immortal	red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
simp. and trad. (仙丹)		仙	丹

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiāndān

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢㄉㄢ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): sin¹ daan¹

(Taishan, Wiktionary): lhen¹ an¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): siên-tân

(Hailu, HRS): sien^ˋ dan^ˋ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seng¹ dang¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sian-tan

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiāndān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢㄉㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siandan
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹-tan¹
  - Yale: syān-dān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiandan
  - Palladius: сяньдань (sjanʹdanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ tän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sin¹ daan¹
  - Yale: sīn dāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹ daan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin¹ dan¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵ taːn⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: lhen¹ an¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬen³³ an³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siên-tân
  - Hakka Romanization System: xien^ˊ dan^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xian¹ dan¹
  - Sinological IPA: /si̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ tan²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: sien^ˋ dan^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /sien⁵³ tan⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ dang¹ [Phonetic: seng⁵ dang¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seng-dang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ taŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ dang¹ [Phonetic: seng⁵ dang¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ taŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian-tan
  - Tâi-lô: sian-tan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siendafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn³³ tan³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tan⁴⁴/

Noun

仙丹

elixir (of life)
(figurative) a highly effective pill or medicine
synonym of 仙丹花 (“Ixora chinensis”)

Derived terms

美國仙丹 / 美国仙丹 (bí-kok-sian-tan) (Hokkien)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (仙丹):

→ Japanese: 仙丹(せんたん) (sentan)
→ Korean: 선단(仙丹) (seondan)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “仙丹”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 474.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
仙	丹
せん Grade: S	たん Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

仙(せん)丹(たん) • (sentan)

elixir (of life)

References

Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN