丹

Historical term

Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)

Esp. 紅い for scarlet, 朱い for vermilion

red; crimson; scarlet; vermilion

Colloquial

Red; communist

cockatoo

Word usually written using kana alone

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa); moutan

ぼたん only

wild boar (meat)

fool; idiot

adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

Abbreviation

godsend; windfall

Idiomatic expression

sudden windfall; unexpected piece of good luck; azuki-covered mochi (fallen) from a shelf

clandestine Christian (during the Edo period); secret Christian

large snowflakes

Sudan

Word usually written using kana alone

sea urchin

Food, cooking; Usu. 雲丹

seasoned sea urchin eggs

Bhutan

Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees

art of making elixirs (e.g. in Chinese trad. medicine); alchemy

Hanafuda

5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card

Hanafuda

scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku

Food, cooking

boar meat hot pot; boar stew

light crimson; scarlet tinged with purple

pit of the stomach

ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

elixir (of life)

greenish-black earth

green verditer

dark green tinged with yellow

Chemistry

red lead; minium; lead(II,IV) oxide

Khitan people; Khitai; Kitan; Kidan