• 淡いあわい

  light, faint, pale, fleeting

• 淡水たんすい

  fresh water (i.e. not salt water)

• 淡白たんぱく

  light (flavor, color, etc.), simple, plain

• 淡々たんたん

  uninterested, unconcerned, indifferent, dispassionate, matter-of-fact, detached

• 濃淡のうたん

  light and shade, shade (of colour, color)

• 冷淡れいたん

  cool, indifferent, apathetic, half-hearted

• 淡紅たんこう

  pink, rose

• 淡味たんみ

  light flavor

• 淡湖たんこ

  freshwater lake

• 淡彩たんさい

  light colouring, light coloring

• 淡色たんしょく

  light color, light colour

• 淡黄たんこう

  pale yellow, light yellow

• 淡月たんげつ

  faint moon, hazy moon

• 淡々あわあわ

  lightly, faintly, delicately

• 淡竹はちく

  Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)

• 淡麗たんれい

  smooth and refreshing (of sake), light with a clean finish

• 淡路あわじ

  Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)

• 淡雪あわゆき

  light snow, light snowfall, thin layer of snow

• 恬淡てんたん

  disinterested, unselfish, indifferent, detached

• 平淡へいたん

  simple, quiet

• 枯淡こたん

  elegant simplicity

• 淡彩画たんさいが

  wash drawing

• 淡紅色たんこうしょく

  pink, rose

• 淡水湖たんすいこ

  freshwater lake

• 淡水魚たんすいぎょ

  freshwater fish

• 淡褐色たんかっしょく

  light brown

• 淡緑色たんりょくしょく

  light green

• 淡水藻たんすいそう

  fresh-water algae

• 淡水化たんすいか

  desalination, desalinization, desalting

• 淡水産たんすいさん

  freshwater, limnetic

• 淡黄色たんこうしょく

  pale yellow, light yellow

• 淡紫色たんししょく

  lilac (colour), mauve, light purple

• 淡黄緑色たんこうりょくしょく

  pistachio (green)

• 淡色野菜たんしょくやさい

  vegetables not high in beta-carotene

• 淡路結びあわじむすび

  var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki

• 冷淡無情れいたんむじょう

  cold-hearted, callous, pitiless, unsympathetic

• 無欲恬淡むよくてんたん

  indifferent to worldly gain

• 濃淡画像のうたんがぞう

  grayscale image, greyscale image

• 閑寂枯淡かんじゃくこたん

  aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement

• 淡色木間蝶うすいろこのまちょう

  evening brown butterfly (Melanitis leda), common evening brown

• 海水淡水化かいすいたんすいか

  desalination

• 淡路養護学校あわじようごがっこう

  Awaji Special Needs School (older name style)

• 淡水ダイビングたんすいダイビング

  freshwater diving

• 淡水化プラントたんすいかプラント

  desalination plant

• 阪神・淡路大震災はんしんあわじだいしんさい

  Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (1995)

• 君子の交わりは淡きこと水のごとしくんしのまじわりはあわきことみずのごとし

  friendships between wise men are plain and hence rock solid

• 得意淡然とくいたんぜん

  not letting oneself puffed up by one's success, maintaining a serene state of mind when one has achieved a great success

• 恬淡虚無てんたんきょむ

  rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless

• 虚無恬淡きょむてんたん

  rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless

• 淡然たんぜん

  plain, indifferent, quiet