だん

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See also: たん

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of だん – see the following entries.
【壇】S
a surname
【断】5
refuse, decline
【段】6
steps (up and down); stairs
rating; ranking
row; line (of text)
(mathematics) multiplication table
(typography) the equivalent to a column in Western layout, but that can be horizontal or vertical depending on the writing direction
(after a number) -th rank; -th degree black belt (in karate, judo, etc)
a section (horizontal line) in the gojūon table, which consists of kana that have or historically have had the same vowel
(typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 1408 mils, 1408⁄1000 in, 128 U (U) and 16 倍 (bai)
【団】5
a surname
group, team, gang
【男】1
a man
a son
a young man, especially one who reached adulthood
(historical) a baron
a male given name
(This term, だん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as だん, see Category:Japanese kanji read as だん.)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English done.

Pronunciation

Particle

だん • (dan) 

  1. (Internet slang, sentence-final particle) done
    書類(しょるい)提出(ていしゅつ)だん
    shorui teishutsu dan
    paperwork: turned in

References

  • “SNSで若者が使う「今日の仕事だん！」の“だん”とは？”, in ITmedia Mobile‎, 2016 August 3
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