扇
shànshān HSK5

fan

扇 shàn frequency
classifier measure word
A numerical classifier used for flat objects, most commonly doors and windows.

推开这一扇门，你就能看到花园了。

tuī​kāi zhè yī shàn mén, nǐ jiù néng kàn​dào huā​yuán le.

Open this door and you will see the garden.

fan noun
A device or tool used to move air for cooling purposes, such as a hand fan.

炎热的夏天，老爷爷摇着扇子在树荫下乘凉。

yán​rè de xià​tiān, lǎo yé​ye yáo zhe shàn zi zài shù​yīn xià chéng​liáng.

On a hot summer day, the old man sat in the shade of a tree fanning himself to keep cool.

扇 shān
fan verb
to fan

他在给自己扇风。

tā zài gěi zì​jǐ shān fēng.

He is fanning himself.

slap verb
to slap someone on the face

他扇了那人一个耳光。

tā shān le nà rén yī gè ěr​guāng.

He slapped the person in the face.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,993rd most common 36.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,781st most common 28.3 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
33.6 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
20.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6247

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)