Kanji1 / 11
淡 kanji
thin, faint, pale, fleeting
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
タン
Kun readings
あわい
Words with 淡
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —淡水湖freshwater lake
- —淡水魚freshwater fish
- —淡彩画wash drawing
- —淡褐色light brown
- —淡緑色light green
- —淡青色light blue; ice blue; sky blue; powder blue
- —淡紫色lilac (colour); mauve; light purple
- —淡水藻fresh-water algae
- —淡水産freshwater; limnetic
- —淡水化desalination; desalinization; desalting
- —濃淡画像grayscale image; greyscale image
- —無欲恬淡indifferent to worldly gain
- —虚無恬淡rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless
- —得意淡然not letting oneself puffed up by one's success; maintaining a serene state of mind when one has achieved a great success
- —冷淡無情cold-hearted; callous; pitiless; unsympathetic
- —閑寂枯淡aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement
- —恬淡虚無rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless
- —淡色野菜vegetables not high in beta-carotene
- —淡黄緑色pistachio (green)
- —海水淡水化desalination