箪 (dān) · a round bamboo basket for holding cooked rice

Meanings

1 a round bamboo basket for holding cooked rice

Characters

箪

dān

round bamboo rice basket

Examples

HSK 6

古人用箪装饭。

Gǔrén yòng dān zhuāng fàn.

The ancients carried cooked rice in a bamboo basket.

HSK 7-9

颜回一箪食，一瓢饮，安贫乐道。

Yán Huí yì dān shí, yì piáo yǐn, ān pín lèdào.

Yan Hui lived contentedly with a single basket of rice and one ladle of water.

Tips

culture

Famous from the phrase 箪食壶浆, originally describing common people welcoming an army with baskets of food and jugs of drink. It also appears in the Analects praise of Confucius's disciple Yan Hui living happily in poverty.

Components

radical

⺮ zhú

bamboo

The bamboo-cap radical, the top form of 竹. It tells you 箪 is a bamboo article, here a woven food basket.

phonetic

单 dān

single; alone

Supplies the sound exactly: standalone 单 is also dān. It gives only the pronunciation and no meaning to this word.

Stroke Order

箪 dān

Related Words

饭 fàn HSK 1 #1,515

cooked rice / meal

米饭 mǐfàn HSK 1 #9,088

cooked rice

大米 dàmǐ HSK 5 #11,635

rice (husked, uncooked) / rice grain

回合 huíhé HSK 7-9 #4,874

round (of a contest) / bout / encounter

笼子 lóngzi HSK 7-9 #5,260

cage / coop / basket

抹 mò #3,923

to plaster (a wall); to skim with mortar / to skirt around; to go round (a corner)

鼓掌 gǔzhǎng HSK 5 #3,681

to applaud; to clap / to give a round of applause

决赛 juésài HSK 5 #2,443

finals / final round (of a competition)

篮 lán #5,662

basket

合 hé HSK 5 #1,830

to close; to shut / to join; to combine; to merge / to fit; to suit; to agree with / to be equal to; to add up to / whole; entire; together / round (of a contest or battle)