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Dan

Dan or dan may refer to one of the following:

Person

* a short form of the name Daniel
* Fedor Dan, Russian Marxist revolutionary
* Dan Hibiki, parody character in several Capcom games
* Dan Lee (b. 1977), comic-strip artist "This Dan Life" and "Mr. Chan"

Place

* Tel Dan, a city in the ancient Kingdom of Israel
* Dan (stream), one of the three large streams which form the Jordan River in Israel
* Gush Dan, a large metropolitan block in Israel, from Rishon LeZion to Ramat Aviv (north Tel Aviv)
* Kibbutz Dan, in northern Israel

Language

* dan rank, a scale of grades in martial arts and Japanese cultural arts
* Dan (Simplified Chinese: æ‹…, Traditional Chinese: æ"", pinyin: dàn), a traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to 50 kg.
* Dan (Chinese opera), a general term meaning a female role in Chinese Opera
* Dan (Hinduism), the inclination to give without expecting any form of repayment from the recipient, which is the Hindu philosophy conception of Charity.

Company and organization

* acronym for Divers Alert Network, a scuba diving association
* Dan Bus Company, a bus company in Israel which operates in the Gush Dan area

Product and service

* Dan (newspaper), daily newspaper published in Podgorica

Culture and civilization

* Dan (Danish), the name of one or more legendary Danish kings
* Tribe of Dan, descendants of the biblical figure
* Dan (biblical figure), one of the sons of Jacob

Others

* DAN (protein) family of tgf beta signaling protein inhiitors



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