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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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dàn
    dan4
tan
 tan
to eat; to taste; to entice (using bait)
to chew


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dàn
    dan4
tan
variant of [dan4]
See:


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dàn
    dan4
tan
 tan
variant of [dan4]
Bite, eat, feed on; a bite, morsel; to lure.

啖う

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 kuu / ku
    くう
(out-dated kanji) (transitive verb) (1) (masculine speech) to eat; (2) to live; to make a living; to survive; (3) to bite; to sting (as insects do); (4) to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of; (5) to encroach on; to eat into; to consume; (6) to defeat a superior; to threaten a position; (7) to consume time and-or resources; (8) (colloquialism) to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event); (9) (masculine speech) (vulgar) to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

啖呵

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 tanka
    たんか
caustic words

健啖

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 kentan
    けんたん
(noun or adjectival noun) gluttony; voracity

噉月


啖月

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dàn yuè
    dan4 yue4
tan yüeh
 tangetsu
To gnaw the moon.

絢啖

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 asae
    あさえ
(personal name) Asae

健啖家

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 kentanka
    けんたんか
glutton; gormandizer; gormandiser

大啖一番

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dà dàn yī fān
    da4 dan4 yi1 fan1
ta tan i fan
to have a square meal

啖呵を切る

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 tankaokiru
    たんかをきる
(exp,v5r) to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)

啖呵(ateji)

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 tanka
    たんか
(See 啖呵を切る) caustic words; defiant words

Variations:
食う(P)
喰う(P)
啖う(oK)

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 kuu / ku
    くう
(transitive verb) (1) (masculine speech) to eat; (transitive verb) (2) to live; to make a living; to survive; (transitive verb) (3) to bite; to sting (as insects do); (transitive verb) (4) to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of; (transitive verb) (5) to encroach on; to eat into; to consume; (transitive verb) (6) to defeat a superior; to threaten a position; (transitive verb) (7) to consume time and-or resources; (transitive verb) (8) (colloquialism) to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event); (transitive verb) (9) (masculine speech) (vulgar) to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

Variations:
食う(P)
喰う(P)
啖う(rK)

see styles
 kuu / ku
    くう
(transitive verb) (1) (masculine speech) to eat; (transitive verb) (2) to live; to make a living; to survive; (transitive verb) (3) to bite; to sting (as insects do); (transitive verb) (4) to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of; (transitive verb) (5) to encroach on; to eat into; to consume; (transitive verb) (6) to defeat a superior; to threaten a position; (transitive verb) (7) to consume time; to consume resources; (transitive verb) (8) (colloquialism) to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event); (transitive verb) (9) (masculine speech) (vulgar) to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

Variations:
啖呵を切る
啖呵をきる
たんかを切る
タンカを切る

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 tankaokiru(呵o切ru, 呵okiru, tankao切ru); tankaokiru(tankao切ru)
    たんかをきる(啖呵を切る, 啖呵をきる, たんかを切る); タンカをきる(タンカを切る)
(exp,v5r) to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)

Variations:
啖呵を切る
啖呵をきる(sK)
たんかを切る(sK)
タンカを切る(sK)

see styles
 tankaokiru; tankaokiru(sk)
    たんかをきる; タンカをきる(sk)
(exp,v5r) to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 16 results for "啖" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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