shān
stir up
To fan 扇 the flames 火; 扇 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.6269% of movies
2896th most common character in movies
3086th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+717D |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“煽,熾盛也。从火,扇聲。” |
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