たん
Meanings
Noun
Chemistry
1. cinnabar; vermilion (mercury sulfide); red lead (trilead tetroxide)
2. red color; vermilion pigment; cinnabar
3. elixir (esp. of immortality); pill
4. sincerity; true heart; devotion
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
writing an inscription on a stone monument (e.g. before carving it)