太子丹
Traditional form:
太子丹
Pinyin (reading):
Tàizǐ Dān
Definitions:
- Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇 ( Qín Shǐhuáng)) by Jing Ke 荊軻／荆轲 ( Jīng Kē) in 227 BC
Characters:
- 太 - very, too much; big; extreme
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 丹 - cinnabar, red, vermilion; pellet, powder
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