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Kanji for Sandalwood
The kanji for “sandalwood” is 檀, read dan and written in 17 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
檀
sandalwood
Sandalwood; sacred and fragrant.
The Danka system traditionally connected Japanese family households to local Buddhist temples for community and ancestral rites.
17 strokes On reading ダン、タン (dan, tan) Kun reading まゆみ (mayumi) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: cedar, sandlewood, spindle tree
Readings used for names on Nazuke: dan
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