漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
誕: nativity, be born
Also: declension, lie, be arbitrary
JLPT N115 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
言 carries the meaning · 延 gives the sound
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
タンtan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 誕生日たんじょうびbirthday
- 生誕せいたんbirth, nativity
- 降誕こうたんbirth, nativity
- 誕生するたんじょうするbe born
- 誕生たんじょう
- お誕生日おたんじょうびbirthday
- お誕生日おめでとうございますおたんじょうびおめでとうございますhappy birthday
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 诞 · traditional, as in Japanese · dàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 誕; mainland China simplifies it to 诞.
- Simplified
- 诞 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 誕 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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