Character

HSK	4
FREQUENCY	632nd character
RADICAL	⼸ (57.8)
STROKES	11
INDEX #	2473
TRADITIONAL	彈

弹 dàn tán

pellet, bullet, shot, shell

HSK 4 #632

DEFINITIONS

弹 dàn	crossball bullet shot shell ball
弹 tán	to pluck (a string) to play (a string instrument) to spring or leap to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) (of cotton) to fluff or tease to flick to flip to accuse to impeach elastic (of materials)

STROKES

WORDS

汽车炸弹 qì chē zhà dàn	car bomb
汽车炸弹事件 qì chē zhà dàn shì jiàn	car bombing
洲际弹道导弹 zhōu jì dàn dào dǎo dàn	intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM
深水炸弹 shēn shuǐ zhà dàn	depth charge
漆弹 qī dàn	paintball (sports)
火箭推进榴弹 huǒ jiàn tuī jìn liú dàn	rocket-propelled grenade (RPG)
炸弹之母 zhà dàn zhī mǔ	Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
炸弹之父 zhà dàn zhī fù	Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb
爆弹 bào dàn	bomb; explosion
球弹 qiú dàn	ball (in sport, incl. billiards)
生物弹药 shēng wù dàn yào	biological ammunition
男儿有泪不轻弹 nán ér yǒu lèi bù qīng tán	real men do not easily cry (idiom)
破甲弹 pò jiǎ dàn	armor piercing shell
空地导弹 kòng dì dǎo dàn	air-to-surface missile
空对空导弹 kōng duì kōng dǎo dàn	air-to-air missile
空空导弹 kōng kōng dǎo dàn	air-to-air missile
糖弹 táng dàn	sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈\|糖衣炮弹[tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4])
纠弹 jiū tán	to censure; to denounce; to impeach
红外线导引飞弹 hóng wài xiàn dǎo yǐn fēi dàn	infrared guided missile
肩射导弹 jiān shè dǎo dàn	shoulder-fired missile
自杀式炸弹 zì shā shì zhà dàn	a suicide bomb
自杀炸弹杀手 zì shā zhà dàn shā shǒu	suicide bomber
自制炸弹 zì zhì zhà dàn	improvised explosive device IED
臭弹 chòu dàn	dead bomb (i.e. not exploding on impact)
旧调重弹 jiù diào chóng tán	replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited; to keep harping on about the same old stuff

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