Chinese Names · Girl
En Tan name meaning
- 恩丹kindness, mercy; red
- Letters
- 5
- Syllables
- 2●●
- First letter
- E
- Character options
- 1
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- Chinese Names
- Gender
- ♀ Girl
- Chinese characters恩丹
En Tan is a Chinese girl's name in Mandarin spelling, for example 恩丹, 'kindness; red', depending on the characters chosen.
Chinese characters for En Tan
- 恩丹
kindness, mercy; red
Mandarin ēn dān (Wade–Giles ên tan)
One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.
About the name En Tan
En Tan is an older-style Mandarin (Wade–Giles) spelling, where Tan stands for the sound dān in Hanyu Pinyin. En usually stands for 恩 (kindness, mercy), while Tan can stand for 丹 (red). The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.
Character pages
Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.
Sources
- MDBG: 恩 · mdbg.net · meaning
- MDBG: 丹 · mdbg.net · meaning
- Wiktionary: 丹 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- Wiktionary: 恩 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
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