丹
/tän⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•cinnabar · refined medical substance · a surname
Etimoloji
Pictogram (象形) of a well or mine with cinnabar inside. It can also indicate "red cinnabar" used in dyeing clothes (e.g., 彤). The original version is 𠂁. See also the bottom part of 青 (< 𤯞). Schuessler (2007) suggests a Kam-Tai origin, comparing it to Proto-Kam-Sui *h-lanꟲ (“red”). 矸, as in 丹矸, may be a variant; see there for more. Alternatively, it may be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ~ *tsa-n…