漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
弾: bullet, twang
Also: flip, snap
JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
弓 carries the meaning · 単 gives the sound
12 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ダンdan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 弾丸だんがんbullet, shot, shell
- 弾薬だんやくammunition
- 爆弾ばくだんbomb [n.]
- 銃弾じゅうだんbullet
- 連弾れんだんfour handed performance (piano)
- 弾力性だんりょくせいelasticity, resilience, flexibility
- 弾圧するだんあつするoppress, suppress
ひくhiku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 弾くひくsnap
はずむhazumu · kun'yomi
- 弾むはずむspring, bounce, become lively
たまtama · kun'yomi
- 弾たまbullet, shot, shell
Also read タン, -ひき, はじく, はじける, ただす, はじきゆみ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the curve of a great bow held steady by a master archer! This character represents the beauty of tension and the potential of energy waiting to be released.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ダン
11 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 弹 · traditional 彈 · dàn
Three different forms: Japanese 弾, simplified 弹, traditional 彈.
- Simplified
- 弹 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 彈 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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