dawn / morning / daybreak / day / dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A big mug, since many people start the day with a mug of coffee.

Don Quixote (d) meets the sun (日) early in the morning (旦) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Don Quixote is full of energy and can't wait to start into a new adventure, but since the sun is a morning grouch who only just started drinking her mug of coffee (mnemonic symbol for 旦) she cannot stand it and beats him over the head with a flute (一) to calm him a bit down.

旦 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 旦 as component

daytime

= + : During the daytime (昼) James II of England (zh) measures the time by measuring how much coffee is left in his coffee mug (旦) with a tape measure (尺). He has the habit of doing so in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
female personal name (archaic)
to die in childhood / war dead
to bare
old variant of 袒[tan3]
variant of 蜑[Dan4]
distressed / alarmed / shocked / grieved
jaundice
da = d + a5
see 疙疸[ge1 da5]
feast / goblet
tantalum (chemistry)
surname Da
rough bamboo mat

Words with 旦

in imminent peril (idiom) / on the brink of crisis
New Year's Day
to be at death's door (idiom)
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)
female warrior role in Chinese opera
see 只爭朝夕|只争朝夕[zhi3 zheng1 zhao1 xi1]

Sentences with 旦

旦 currently does not appear in any sentence.
Comments

Big thanks to AlanRider who uploaded the yellow mug to https://openclipart.org/detail/215958/yellow-mug

Matthias, over 1 year ago