煽
shān HSK7

stir up

煽 shān
fan verb
to fan into a flame

他在火炉旁用力地煽着，试图让火烧得更旺一些。

tā zài huǒ​lú páng yòng​lì de shān zhe, shì​tú ràng huǒ shāo de gèng wàng yī​xiē.

He fanned the stove vigorously, trying to make the fire burn brighter.

incite verb
to instigate or stir up emotions or trouble

这种言辞极易煽起人们心中的仇恨。

zhè zhǒng yán​cí jí yì shān​qǐ rén​men xīn zhōng de chóu​hèn.

This kind of rhetoric easily incites hatred in people's hearts.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,086th most common 8.75 per million
Movie subtitles
2,896th most common 4.06 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.56 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.53 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+717D

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