单 (單) dān

1. dān noun bill; slip of paper; form
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
   Notes: (FE dān '單' 5; GHDC dān '单' 7)
2. dān adjective single
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 一个 (CCD dān '单' 1; FE dān '單' 1; GHDC dān '单' 1; Kroll 2015 '單' 1, p. 75; Unihan '單')
3. shàn proper noun Shan
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (CCD shàn '单' 2; FE shàn '單'; GHDC shàn '单' 2)
4. chán noun chieftain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Especially of the Xiongnu people in historic times (CCD chán '单'; ; FE chán '單'; GHDC chán '单')
5. dān adjective poor; impoverished
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '單' 2b, p. 75)
6. dān verb to deplete; to exhaust
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '單' 3, p. 75)
7. dān adjective odd
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mathematics
   Notes: In the sense of 奇数 'odd number' (CCD dān '单' 2; FE dān '單' 4; GHDC dān '单' 2)
8. dān adjective lone
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 单独 (CCD dān '单' 3; FE dān '單' 2; GHDC dān '单' 1; Unihan '單')
9. dān adverb only
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 只 (CCD dān '单' 4; FE dān '單' 2; GHDC dān '单' 3)
10. dān adjective few
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 少 (CCD dān '单' 5; Kroll 2015 '單' 2a, p. 75)
11. dān adjective weak; thin
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 薄弱 (CCD dān '单' 6; GHDC dān '单' 6; Kroll 2015 '單' 2, p. 75)
12. dān adjective unlined
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of clothing (CCD dān '单' 7; GHDC dān '单' 4; Kroll 2015 '單' 1a, p. 75)
13. dān noun a sheet
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 单子 (CCD dān '单' 8)
14. dān noun a list of names; a list
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 名单 (CCD dān '单' 9; FE dān '單' 6)
15. shàn proper noun Shan County
    Domain: Places 地方 , Subdomain: China , Concept: County 县
    Notes: In Shandong (CCD shàn '单' 1; GHDC shàn '单' 1)
16. dān adjective simple
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 简单 (FE dān '單' 3; GHDC dān '单' 5)
17. dān noun a meditation mat
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHDC dān '单' 9)
18. dān adjective alone; solitary; ekākin
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: ekākin, Japanese: tan (BCSD '單', p. 269; MW 'ekākin'; SH '單', p. 368; Unihan '單')
19. dān noun living quarters at a monastery
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Literally, a place for living at a monastery (FGDB '單')

Contained in

• 二单书记(二單書記) Second Deputy Secretary
• 滥挂海单(濫掛海單) the indiscriminate housing of wandering monks
• 迁单(遷單) to expel ; to asked to leave a monastery after breaking rules
• 挂单(掛單) lodging ; Get Lodging ; temporary monastic lodging; to stay overnight at a monastery
• 进单(進單) to join a monastery
• 挂搭单(掛搭單) to stay at a temple
• 衣单(衣單) tag for clothes and bowl
• 头单监寺(頭單監寺) Executive Deputy Superintendent
• 修单兰(修單蘭) sūtra
• 北单越(北單越) Uttarakuru

Also contained in

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• Lecture 5: The Meaning of “Dan” 第五講‧單的意義 One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》 — count: 65
• Lecture 4: Forty-Eight Positions 第四講‧四十八單 One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》 — count: 34
• Lecture 15: Remove from Stay and Leave Without Notification 第十五講‧遷單溜單 One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》 — count: 24
• Standards for Language in Buddhist Monasteries 佛教叢林語言規範 Treatises on Humanistic Buddhism 《人間佛教論文集》 — count: 17
• Me and Clergy in the Catholic Church 我與天主教的神職人員 Buddhist Affinities over a Century 4 - Social Affinities 2 《百年佛緣4－社緣篇2》 — count: 16
• Hsing Yun Diary 26 - Managing Causes and Conditions 星雲日記26～把握因緣 把握因緣(1993/11/16～1993/11/30) Hsing Yun Diary (1993/1-1994/8) 《星雲日記(1993/1~1994/8)》 — count: 13
• Lecture 15: Buddha's Light Organizations 第十五講．佛光組織 One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 5: Organizational Management 《僧事百講5－組織管理》 — count: 12
• 11. Buddhism Terminology 3 拾壹、佛門用語篇 ～之三 Buddhism Series 7 - Organization and Ceremonies 《佛教叢書7－儀制》 — count: 10
• 2. Combined Practice of Chan and Pure Land Buddhism - 1. Meditation 貳、禪淨加行篇 一、禪修 Buddhism Series 7 - Organization and Ceremonies 《佛教叢書7－儀制》 — count: 10
• Scroll 2: Sources of Joy - You Need to Look 卷二　快樂的來源 要看 Life's Ten Thousand Affairs 2 - Intangible Value 《人間萬事2－無形的可貴》 — count: 10

Collocations

• 四十八单 (四十八單) 叢林四十八單職事中 — Lectures on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 《六祖壇經講話》, Questions and Discussion 問題討論 — count: 36
• 一单 (一單) 表明自己想到該處討一單 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 5: The Meaning of “Dan” 第五講‧單的意義 — count: 20
• 单银 (單銀) 單銀 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 5: The Meaning of “Dan” 第五講‧單的意義 — count: 12
• 单职事 (單職事) 叢林四十八單職事中 — Lectures on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 《六祖壇經講話》, Questions and Discussion 問題討論 — count: 8
• 止单 (止單) 止單 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 5: The Meaning of “Dan” 第五講‧單的意義 — count: 8
• 头单 (頭單) 不過有分頭單 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 4: Forty-Eight Positions 第四講‧四十八單 — count: 6
• 三单 (三單) 三單等 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 4: Forty-Eight Positions 第四講‧四十八單 — count: 5
• 单盘 (單盤) 盤腿分為單盤及雙盤 — Lectures on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 《六祖壇經講話》, Questions and Discussion 問題討論 — count: 5
• 二单 (二單) 二單 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 4: Forty-Eight Positions 第四講‧四十八單 — count: 5
• 讨单 (討單) 討單 — One Hundred Lessons on Monastery Language and Affairs 1: Monastery Administration 《僧事百講1－叢林制度》, Lecture 5: The Meaning of “Dan” 第五講‧單的意義 — count: 5