Word Meaning 丹砂

たんしゃ tansha

丹砂 is read as たんしゃ (tansha) and means cinnabar.

Meaning

English

  1. cinnabar

Reading

Kana

たんしゃ

Romaji

tansha

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 13 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 4級 Rank 139124 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

丹精

たんせい

working earnestly

丹念

たんねん

painstaking

丹後

たんご

Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)

丹前

たんぜん

large padded kimono

丹田

たんでん

point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

丹心

たんしん

sincerity

丹州

たんしゅう

Tanshū (the two former provinces of Tanba and Tango)

浜の真砂

はまのまさご

grains of sand on the beach (i.e. something countless)

盛砂

もりずな

ceremonial piles of sand (placed on both sides of an entrance to greet an important personage)

金剛砂

こんごうしゃ

emery (powder)

すな

sand

土砂

どさ

sediment