丹毒

Chinese

		red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar	poison; narcotics
trad. (丹毒)		丹	毒
simp. ^#(丹毒)		丹	毒

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dāndú

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄢㄉㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ duk⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tan-to̍k

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dāndú
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄢㄉㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dandú
  - Wade–Giles: tan¹-tu²
  - Yale: dān-dú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dandwu
  - Palladius: даньду (danʹdu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ tu³⁵/
  - Homophones:
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Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
  - Jyutping: daan¹ duk⁶
  - Yale: dāan duhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ duk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ dug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ tʊk̚²/
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Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-to̍k
  - Tâi-lô: tan-to̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dandok
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³ tɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔk̚⁴/

Noun

丹毒

(pathology) erysipelas

Japanese

Kanji in this term
丹	毒
たん Grade: S	どく Grade: 5
on'yomi

Etymology

From tan (丹, cinnabar red, vermilion, red) + doku (毒, poison, toxin).

Noun

丹(たん)毒(どく) • (tandoku)

rose; erysipelas

References

“丹毒”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.