Keyword
start of a day
Info
FrequencyTop 1000-1100
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 2
Heisig30
Readings
だん
(68%)
たん
(31%)
Composed of
sun
one
Mnemonic

A pictograph of a sun rising over the horizon which signifies the start of a day.

Used in kanji (15 in total)
gain
quantity
midday
to shoulder
Used in vocabulary (37 in total)
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
young master; young gentleman
New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day
(one's) father-in-law; (one's) employer; master; principal supporter of a temple; influential temple parishioner
ex-husband; former husband
on the brink of; morning and evening; day and night
the whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day
first day of the month; character sketch; comments on personalities; commentary
pomelo (Citrus maxima); shaddock
to be on the brink of death
New Year's Day
(ancient) China
dilettantism; amateurism
dawn and dusk; morn and eve
(when) danger threatens; should an emergency occur
staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen Buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging; providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time
to be on the brink of death
tomorrow morning
character sketch; comments on personalities
to become a mistress; to serve as a concubine; to serve one's master
the whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day
(ancient) China
(ancient) China
hubby; (my) husband
better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know
dawn; daybreak
character sketch; comments on personalities; commentary
tomorrow; tomorrow morning
sulphur-crested cockatoo (sulfur) (Cacatua galerita)
Moluccan cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis); salmon-crested cockatoo
yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea)
Examples (19 in total)
What do you call your husband at home?
He'll become a good husband.
Her husband is one of my friends.