Save Gender Feminine & Masculine Usage Chinese Scripts 雅丹(Chinese) Pronounced Pron. YA-DAN [key] Meaning & History From Chinese 雅丹 (yǎdān), meaning "yardang", which combines 雅 (yǎ), meaning "elegant, graceful, refined", with 丹 (dān), meaning "cinnabar, red". Other character combinations can form this name as well.