淡 is the Japanese kanji for faint, thin, pale, fleeting. It is written with 11 strokes and appears at JLPT level N1. Its kun reading is あわ.い and its on reading is タン.
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Words with 淡
- 淡いlight (color, taste, etc.), faint (e.g. smell), pale
- 淡々uninterested, unconcerned, indifferent
- 淡水fresh water (i.e. not salt water)
- 冷淡cool, indifferent, apathetic
- 濃淡light and shade, shade (of colour, color)
- 淡泊light (flavor, color, etc.), simple, plain
Practice 淡 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.