弹 · dàn
pellet, bullet, shot, shell
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
pellet, bullet, shot, shell
- Mandarin
- dàn
- Cantonese
- daan6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5F39
- Radical
- 弓 · 57
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 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 弹
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
彈
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dàn
- kCantonese
- daan6
- kDefinition
- pellet, bullet, shot, shell
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 57.8
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5F39 U+5F48
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5F39
- kTGH
- 2013:2473
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dàn 0211.050 · tán 1113.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dàn 065.170 · tán 358.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- dàn(313) tán(50) tan(13)