淡dàn
light-flavoured. 11 strokes, radical 氵, first met in HSK 4.
Pinyin dànStrokes 11Radical 氵Band HSK 4Words 1
How to write 淡
Strokes 1–3 write 氵, then strokes 4–11 write 炎.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 淡 · the stroke-order rules
What 淡 is made of
氵 (shuǐ, water) and 炎 (yán, flame).
氵 carries the meaning — water — and 炎 carries the sound.
Words that use 淡
| 淡 | light-flavoured 味道不浓，或颜色不深 大家品着清爽的淡茶交流心得。Everyone sipped light tea while sharing their thoughts. Lesson 267, 登临览胜与格物省思 · 攀峰涉远与地舆探胜 · Mountain Expeditions, Geography & Urban Topography |
Characters that share the sound part 炎
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 氵
All 76 of them, and what the radical means, on the 氵 radical page.