黒契丹

カラキタイ

Kara Khitai (Central Asian Khitan empire, 1132-1211 CE)

契丹文字

きったんもじ

Khitan script

丹

に

red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium), vermilion

契約

けいやく

contract, compact, agreement

契る

ちぎる

to pledge, to vow, to promise, to swear

契機

けいき

opportunity, chance

黙契

もっけい

implicit agreement, tacit understanding

契合

けいごう

coincidence of opinions, etc., agreement

契印

けいいん

impression of a seal over the joint of two papers, tally

印契

いんげい いんけい

mudra (symbolic hand gesture)

契り

ちぎり

pledge, vow, promise

幽契

ゆうけい かそけちぎり

secret promise made to the gods

青丹

あおに

greenish-black earth

丹後

Tango (former province located in the north of present-day Kyoto Prefecture)

丹波

Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

丹州

Tanshū (the two former provinces of Tanba and Tango)

丹田

たんでん

point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

丹毒

たんどく

erysipelas

丹色

にいろ

red