扇 (shàn)
fan; measure word for doors/windows
How 扇 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 户 — door/house
- Traditional
- 扇
- Simplified
- 扇 (unchanged)
Components
- 户 door/house
- 羽 feather
扇 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- shān
- to fan; to slap sb on the face
- shàn
- fan; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc
Common words using 扇
- 扇子 shānzi
- fan; CL:把[ba3]
- 扇貝 shànbèi
- scallop (genus Pecten)
- 電風扇 diànfēngshàn
- electric fan; CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2]
- 吊扇 diàoshàn
- a ceiling fan; a punka
- 團扇 tuánshàn
- circular fan
- 扇動 shāndòng
- to fan; to flap; to incite
- 扇區 shànqū
- disk sector (computing)
- 扇形 shànxíng
- circular sector
- 折扇 zhéshàn
- folding fan
- 芭蕉扇 bājiāoshàn
- palm-leaf fan
- 蒲扇 púshàn
- cattail-leaf fan
- 門扇 ménshàn
- door; the opening panel of a door
扇 in a sentence
請把那扇窗戶打開。
Qǐng bǎ nà shàn chuānghù dǎkāi.
“Please open that window.”
How common is 扇?
扇 is the 1,990th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.1% of all running text.
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