七返丹

qīfǎndān
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 seven-return elixir
  2. 2 a legendary Daoist pill said to bestow long life and cultivation
  3. 3 miracle pill in wuxia fiction

Examples

Chuánshuō qīfǎndān néng yánnián-yìshòu.
Legend has it the seven-return elixir prolongs life.
Wǔxiá xiǎoshuō lǐ, zhǔjiǎo chīle qīfǎndān nèilì dà zēng.
In wuxia novels, the hero's inner power leaps after swallowing a seven-return pill.
Tā chuīxū zìjǐ de mìfāng shì xiàndài bǎn qīfǎndān.
He brags his secret recipe is a modern-day elixir of immortality.

Tips

culture
A staple of Daoist alchemy and wuxia fiction. = refined seven times (the more cycles, the more potent). Close cousin of . Dongfang Yu's 《》 claimed one pill equalled twenty years' cultivation.

Stroke Order

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dān