丹田

Chinese

		red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar	field; farm
simp. and trad. (丹田)		丹	田

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dāntián

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄢㄊㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ tin⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tân-thièn
Min Nan (POJ): tan-tiân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dāntián
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄢㄊㄧㄢˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dantyan
  - IPA ^(key): /ta̠n⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daan¹ tin⁴
  - Yale: dāan tìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ tin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ tin⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tân-thièn
  - Hakka Romanization System: dan´ tienˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dan¹ tian²
  - IPA: /tan²⁴ tʰi̯en¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-tiân
  - Tâi-lô: tan-tiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dandieen
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³ tiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn²³/

Noun

丹田

(Traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts) dantian
Any one of the 3 dantian:
1. the upper dantian (上丹田), between the eyebrows
2. the center dantian (中丹田), at the solar plexus
3. the lower dantian (下丹田), below the navel

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (丹田):

→ Japanese: 丹 (たん)田 (でん) (tanden)
→ Korean: 단전 (丹田, danjeon)
→ Vietnamese: đan điền (丹田)

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