扇 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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shàn, shān

fan

A feathered 羽 fan in the shape of a folding door 户

Components

户 Meaning component

hù

door

羽 Meaning component

yǔ

feather

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

扇

shàn

fan; door panel; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc

扇

shān

to fan; to slap sb on the face

Most common words with 扇

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	扇	fan
	风扇	electric fan
	扇子	fan
	扇贝	scallop (genus Pecten)
	电风扇	electric fan

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

煽

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

煽骟

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[l̥][a][r]-s	syenH	shàn	leaf of door (: fan?)

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 13.4391% of movies

1781st most common character in movies

1993rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+6247
Shuowen	“扇，扉也。从戶，从翄聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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