铲
chǎn HSK7

spade

铲 (剷) chǎn frequency
shovel verb
to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel

环卫工人们正忙着铲路上的积雪。

huán​wèi gōng​rén men zhèng máng zhe chǎn lù​shang de jī​xuě.

Sanitation workers are busy shoveling snow from the road.

铲 (鏟) chǎn
shovel verb
spade; shovel

他放下手中的铲，擦了擦额头上的汗。

tā fàng​xià shǒu zhōng de chǎn, cā le cā é​tóu shàng de hàn.

He put down his shovel and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Cross-References

Has variant

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
Traditional
鏟
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+94F2

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