Surname · Chinese · Japanese
丹
“red”
丹 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
丹 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ~ *tsa-n, meaning “red.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(j)a-n ~ *tsa-n (“red”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
丹’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 丹 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Tan.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 丹
- Lin DanChinese badminton playerborn 1983
- Zhang DanChinese pair skaterborn 1985
- Wang DanChinese protesterborn 1969
- Guo DanChinese archerborn 1985
- Zhao DanChinese actor (1915-1980)
- Li DanChinese trampolinistborn 1988
- Song DanChinese javelin throwerborn 1990
- Crown Prince Dancrown Price of State of Yan
- Lau DanHong Kong actorborn 1942
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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