丹花

Japanese

Kanji in this term
丹	花
たん Grade: S	か Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

From tan (丹, cinnabar red, vermilion, red) + ka (花, flower, blossom)

Noun

丹花 (hiragana たんか, rōmaji tanka)

red flower
a metaphor for the red lips of a beautiful woman

References

1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

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