鏟
chǎn HSK7

spade

铲 鏟 chǎn frequency
variant 剷
spade noun
(bound form) spade; shovel; any tool used for scooping or leveling things

为什么你不拿起铁铲开始挖呢？

wèi​shén​me nǐ bù ná qǐ tiě chǎn kāi​shǐ wā ne?

Why don't you grab a shovel and start digging?

to shovel verb
to shovel; to scoop up; to scrape the ground with a spade to level it or to remove weeds

他们在雪中铲出了一条小路。

tā​men zài xuě zhōng chǎn chū le yī tiáo xiǎo​lù.

They shovelled a path through the snow.

铲 鏟 chǎn
to eliminate
to root out; to eradicate; to eliminate; to destroy

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,057th most common 9.07 per million
Movie subtitles
2,398th most common 10.1 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.13 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.45 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
铲
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+93DF

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