chǎn
spade
Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 产 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鏟.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 铲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to shovel | ||
to root out | ||
shovel | ||
front loader (vehicle) | ||
wok spatula |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.8534% of movies
2399th most common character in movies
3057th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+94F2 |
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