单 · dān
single, individual, only; lone
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
single, individual, only; lone
- Mandarin
- dān
- Cantonese
- daan1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5355
- Radical
- 十 · 24
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 单
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
單
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dān
- kCantonese
- daan1
- kDefinition
- single, individual, only; lone
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 24.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5355 U+55AE
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5355
- kTGH
- 2013:1232
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chán 0117.100 · dān 0207.100 · shàn 0999.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chán 036.140 · dān 064.090 · shàn 325.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- dān(603)