仙丹

Chinese

		immortal	red; pellet; powder red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
simp. and trad. (仙丹)		仙	丹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāndān

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): sin¹ daan¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lhen¹ an¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sian-tan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāndān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siandan
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹-tan¹
    • Yale: syān-dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiandan
    • Palladius: сяньдань (sjanʹdanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin¹ daan¹
    • Yale: sīn dāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹ daan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin¹ dan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵ taːn⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lhen¹ an¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬen³³ an³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian-tan
    • Tâi-lô: sian-tan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siendafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn³³ tan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tan⁴⁴/

Noun

仙丹

1. elixir (of life)
2. (figurative) a highly effective pill or medicine

Derived terms

• 美國仙丹／美国仙丹 (bí-kok-sian-tan) (Hokkien)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (仙丹):

• → Japanese: 仙丹(せんたん) (sentan)
• → Korean: 선단(仙丹) (seondan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
仙	丹
せん Grade: S	たん Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

仙(せん)丹(たん) • (sentan) 

1. elixir (of life)

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN