誕 (daan3 | dan4) : birthday; born

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誕

daan3

dan4

[1] [n] birthday; birth
[2] [v] be born; come into being
[2] [adj] absurb; fantastic

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 14

Level: 2

Radical: (#149)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

誕 / 诞

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 15th Mar 2011 03:37

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聖誕快樂 sing3 daan3 faai3 lok6 sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 = Merry Christmas

聖誕老人 sing3 daan3 lou5 jan4 sheng4 dan4 lao3 ren2 = Father Christmas (Santa Claus)

聖誕樹 sing3 daan3 syu6 = Christmas tree

聖誕禮物 sing3 daan3 lai5 mat6 = Christmas present

聖誕節 sing3 daan3 zit3 sheng4 dan4 jie2 = Christmas

誕辰 daan3 san4 dan4 chen2 = birthday

誕生 daan3 saang1 dan4 sheng1 = to be born

聖誕 sing3 daan3 sheng4 dan4 = Christmas

聖誕卡 sing3 daan3 kaat1 = Christmas card

佛誕 fat6 daan3 fo2 dan4 = Sakyamuni buddha's birthday
See all 24 compounds (CantoDict reports 25 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 32 examples containing 誕

聖誕節就快到喇粵
It will be Christmas soon

聖誕節快來了國
It will be Christmas soon

聖誕之前剩番廿三日買嘢咋粵
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

聖誕節之前只剩下二十三天買禮物了！國
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

希望大家有個輕鬆悠閑嘅聖誕節粵
I hope we have a relaxing Christmas.

希望大家過個輕鬆悠閒的聖誕節國
I hope we have a relaxing Christmas.

你估聖誕日會唔會落雪吖? 粵
Do you think it will snow on Christmas Day?

你覺得聖誕節當天會不會下雪？國
Do you think it will snow on Christmas Day?

喺聖誕節，我哋會大宴親朋粵
At Christmas we will have a big party.

我們聖誕節當天要辦個大聚會國
On Christmas Day we will have a big party.

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Decimal representation of this word: 誕
Unicode code for this character: U+8a95 (off-site link)

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